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Breach notice filed by Verity Health System of California, Inc. (May 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 OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) with a submission date of May 3, 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
May 3, 2019
Observed by BreachRecords
2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13425, row:4564)
Archived copy
Held in the private archive (provenance)

An unauthorized party accessed a workforce member’s email account containing the protected health information (PHI) of 662 individuals, including demographic, clinical, and health plan information. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media, and provided substitute notice. Following the breach, the CE strengthened safeguards by implementing multi-factor authentication for its email account, applying a mandatory password change for all users, and increasing the required frequency of workforce member password changes. The CE also trained workforce members to identify phishing attempts. OCR obtained evidence of safeguards implemented prior to the breach and assurances that the CE implemented the corrective action steps listed above.

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

Figures, per source

  • 662 individuals affected (total reported), as reported by the HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals), source date May 3, 2019, revision observed 2026-10-18.

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Timeline

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  • Submission date at the HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals)
  • Observed by BreachRecords (revision 13425)
  • Approved by a reviewer

Organizations linked by a reviewer

Archived evidence

  • 3dbc27dd5742e041cc1e7fe18cc669e2901fbd3b86b7007ed27948ff4d406e1f
    text/csv, 5,530,996 bytes, from the HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals), retrieved 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC. Archived privately · Provenance · Source page

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