MisuseHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcarePrivilege AbuseEmployee Data InvolvedCustomer Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryIdentity (basic)Government IDPHIHealth (basic)MediumContained

UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INCORPORATED

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 30, 2012

Filed

Mar 30, 2012

To disclose

9 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INCORPORATED →19 incidents on file

UnitedHealthcare discovered unauthorized employee access to a database containing personal information, including names, SSNs, and Medicare numbers, for the period June 28 to December 12, 2011. The incident was detected on January 30, 2012. Law enforcement was notified, and affected individuals were offered one year of credit monitoring. The company is reinforcing employee policies and evaluating additional safeguards.

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California clockDiscovered Jan 30, 2012 → Notified Mar 1, 201231d ✓ CA 60-day OK9 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 216 days

discovery → filing · 9 weeks / 60 days

Jun 28, 2011

Begins

Jan 30, 2012

Discovered

Mar 30, 2012

Filed

vs. sector median

2 wks faster

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_ada81446311298da2012-04-01 · +2dVerified

Name: UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INCORPORATED
norm: unitedhealth group
Domain: unitedhealthgroup.com

Name: UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INCORPORATED
norm: unitedhealth group
Domain: unitedhealthgroup.com
Industry: HealthcarellmFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: Jan 30, 2012
Breach occurred: Jun 28, 2011 – Dec 12, 2011
Undetected for: 216 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 1, 2012
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDPHIHealth (basic)
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Insider
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Reported the incident to law enforcement authorities
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Investigated this matter
Reported the incident to law enforcement authorities
Offering one year of free Equifax Credit Watch Gold with 3-in-1 Monitoring
Changes made: Reinforcing existing policies and practices with employees
Evaluating additional safeguards to help prevent a similar incident from occurring in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 9 weeks(60 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day OK · 31d
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
California
Discovered: Jan 30, 2012
→ Notified: Mar 1, 2012
31d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Jan 30, 2012 → Notified: Mar 1, 2012	31d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day OK

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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California State AGMar 30 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+2d

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source URL: https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-22860
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 30, 2012
Raw hash: b33b4eddacd3968eb4e1e97ef53eeb512e823a1f8200cae0a4dd4a4e95d9cc90

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityUNITEDHEALTH GROUP INCORPORATED

Victim entityUNITEDHEALTH GROUP INCORPORATED

Incidentdiscovered Jan 30, 2012

Stated responseInvestigated this matter

ComplianceCA 60-day OK

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov