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Breach notice filed by Verity Health System of California, Inc. (January 2019)

Organization named: Verity Health System of California, Inc. 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 Jan. 26, 2019.

Organization as reported
Verity Health System of California, Inc., CA
Entity type as reported
Business Associate
Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information as reported
Email
Submission date
Jan. 26, 2019
Observed by BreachRecords
2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13556, row:4695)
Archived copy
Held in the private archive (provenance)

An unauthorized third party accessed a workforce member’s email account, affecting the protected health information (PHI) of 2,988 individuals. The types of PHI involved in the breach included demographic, clinical, and financial information. The covered entity (CE) provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media. As a result of OCR’s investigation, the CE strengthened safeguards by training workforce members to identify phishing attempts, implementing multi-factor authentication for email, mandating changes to all users' passwords, and increasing the required frequency of workforce member password changes. OCR obtained evidence of the CE’s risk analysis and safeguards that it implemented prior to the breach.

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

Figures, per source

  • 2,988 individuals affected (total reported), according to the HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal, source date Jan. 26, 2019, 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 13556)
  • Approved by a reviewer

Organizations linked by a reviewer

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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