Verity Health System of California, Inc.

Verity Medical Foundation, also known as Verity Health System of California, Inc., operates as a health‑system organization headquartered in the United States. The organization delivers medical care and related health services to patients within California. As a health system it provides a range of clinical services that generate and maintain protected health information for individuals receiving treatment. Its activities therefore involve the collection, storage, and transmission of sensitive personal data such as diagnoses, treatment details, and insurance information. Because it handles protected health information, the organization is subject to federal privacy regulations governing health data.

In November 2019 Verity Medical Foundation reported an unauthorized access incident affecting three employee email accounts, which exposed emails and attachments containing patient names, treatment details, medical conditions, insurance data, dates of birth, contact information, and in some cases Social Security or driver’s license numbers. Earlier in January 2019 the organization disclosed a third email‑account breach that compromised protected health information for over 14,000 patients. In response to both incidents the organization terminated the unauthorized access, disabled the compromised accounts, removed malicious communications and offered credit monitoring to individuals whose sensitive identifiers were exposed. It also instituted mandatory employee training, system‑wide password resets, restrictions on unknown URLs and deployed new organization‑wide cybersecurity training modules. Verity Health System of California, Inc. remains a California‑incorporated entity that continues to provide healthcare services while maintaining heightened security controls to protect patient data.