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Breach notice filed by Torrance Memorial Medical Center (March 2020)

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 March 6, 2020.

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
Network Server
Submission date
March 6, 2020
Observed by BreachRecords
2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12973, row:4112)
Archived copy
Held in the private archive (provenance)

Torrance Memorial Medical Center, the covered entity (CE), reported that its business associate (BA) was the victim of a cyber-attack that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 3,448 individuals. The ePHI involved included clinical information, diagnoses/conditions, and other treatment information. The BA retrained its staff and implemented additional technical safeguards.

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

Figures, per source

  • 3,498 individuals affected (total reported), according to the HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal, source date March 6, 2020, 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 12973)
  • 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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