NEW YORKHackingHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedData EncryptedCustomer Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryMulti-Stage ChainPHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTCriticalResolved
EXCELLUS HEALTH PLAN, INC.
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Full breach record for EXCELLUS HEALTH PLAN, INC. →Excellus Health Plan, Inc. reported to HHS on 2015-09-09 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 9358891 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server. Hackers gained unauthorized access between Dec 23, 2013 and May 11, 2015, installing malware and exfiltrating PHI, SSNs, and financial data. The plan settled with OCR for $5.1 million and implemented a corrective action plan with two years of monitoring.
HIPAA clockDiscovered Dec 23, 2013 → Notified Sep 9, 2015625d ✗ HIPAA 60-day late21 months discovery → filing
⚠ occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed9,358,891 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/breach/breach_report.jsf
DisclosureLens renders the full SEC/HHS filing inline below from the originating regulator’s public record (§4.5 fair report privilege).
- Filed at
- Sep 9, 2015
- Raw hash
- e66c90006250401b557fc5fe0ea0b6fb7e22ea04f2197a8efbb03d7215da250a
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- EXCELLUS HEALTH PLAN, INC.norm: excellus health plan
- Industry
- Insurance — Health
Victim entity
- Name
- EXCELLUS HEALTH PLAN, INC.norm: excellus health plan
- Industry
- Insurance — Health
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Dec 23, 2013
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Sep 9, 2015
- Affected individuals
- 9,358,891
- Data types
- PHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 ChannelT1119 Automated Collection
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Regulator citations
- Paid $5.1 million to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)Settled potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy and Security Rules
- Initial access
- exploit_public_facing
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 21 months(625 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- HIPAA 60-day late · 625dHHS notified · 625d
- Discovery-date grounding
- occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status HIPAA Discovered: Dec 23, 2013→ Notified: Sep 9, 2015625d 60 days HIPAA 60-day late HIPAA Discovered: Dec 23, 2013→ Notified: Sep 9, 2015625d regulatory submission HHS notified
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.