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Breach notice filed by Torrance Memorial Medical Center (June 2017)

Organization named: Torrance Memorial Medical Center Provisional: identity as filed, not yet matched to the directory
Type as the source lists it: Hacking/IT Incident

What the sources say

HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) Primary notice

Posted on the HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal with a submission date of June 19, 2017.

Organization as reported
Torrance Memorial Medical Center, CA
Entity type as reported
Healthcare Provider
Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information as reported
Email
Submission date
June 19, 2017
Observed by BreachRecords
2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 14161, row:5300)
Archived copy
Held in the private archive (provenance)

The covered entity (CE) reported that two workforce members responded to a phishing email which resulted in a breach of protected health information (PHI). The breach affected 44,960 individuals and included names, addresses, dates of birth, health care claims information, diagnoses, medications, other treatment information, and 3,304 social security numbers. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals and the media. Following the breach, the CE took a number of steps to strengthen its administrative and technical safeguards. It increased its security training and enhanced authentication procedures and technical measures to identify and remove malicious emails. OCR’s investigation resulted in the CE improving its practices in safeguarding PHI.

The source's own words, from the revision above.

Figures, per source

  • 46,632 individuals affected (total reported), according to the HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal, source date June 19, 2017, revision observed 2026-10-18.

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Timeline

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  • Submission date (HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal)
  • Observed by BreachRecords (revision 14161)
  • Approved by a reviewer

Organizations linked by a reviewer

  • Torrance Memorial Medical Center Named as the covered entity Provisional: identity as filed, not yet matched to the directory Linked 2026-10-19, method provisional.

Archived evidence

  • 3dbc27dd5742e041cc1e7fe18cc669e2901fbd3b86b7007ed27948ff4d406e1f
    text/csv, 5,530,996 bytes, retrieved from HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal, 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC. Archived privately · Provenance · Source page

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