Kaiser Permanente Health Plan, Inc.

Kaiser Permanente Health Plan, Inc.

The California Office of the Attorney General reported that Kaiser Permanente Health Plan, Inc of Northern California experienced a data breach on November 7, 2016, related to an accidental exposure of protected health information on October 12-13, 2016. The breach allowed member information accessed via kp.org to be mistakenly viewable by other visitors for approximately two hours, although no Social Security numbers or banking information were compromised.

Source: https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-64764

TPRM report: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/kaiser-permanente

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"linkid": "kaiser-permanente",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "10/2016",
"severity": "25",
"impact": "1",
"explanation": "Attack without any consequences"
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                        'location': 'Northern California',
                        'name': 'Kaiser Permanente Health Plan, Inc of '
                                'Northern California',
                        'type': 'Healthcare Provider'}],
 'attack_vector': 'Accidental Exposure',
 'data_breach': {'personally_identifiable_information': 'Member Information',
                 'sensitivity_of_data': 'High',
                 'type_of_data_compromised': 'Protected Health Information'},
 'date_detected': '2016-11-07',
 'description': 'The California Office of the Attorney General reported that '
                'Kaiser Permanente Health Plan, Inc of Northern California '
                'experienced a data breach on November 7, 2016, related to an '
                'accidental exposure of protected health information on '
                'October 12-13, 2016. The breach allowed member information '
                'accessed via kp.org to be mistakenly viewable by other '
                'visitors for approximately two hours, although no Social '
                'Security numbers or banking information were compromised.',
 'impact': {'data_compromised': 'Member Information',
            'systems_affected': 'kp.org'},
 'references': [{'source': 'California Office of the Attorney General'}],
 'title': 'Kaiser Permanente Health Plan Data Breach',
 'type': 'Data Breach',
 'vulnerability_exploited': 'Misconfiguration'}
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