FLORIDAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumContained

Sunshine State Health Plan

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 29, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

3,429

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Sunshine State Health Plan →3 incidents on file

Sunshine State Health Plan reported to HHS on 2020-12-29 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 3429 individuals. Breached information located on Paper/Films. A business associate employee discovered a batch processing error where PHI (names, addresses, DOB, health insurance info) was mailed to wrong recipients. The BA updated software, strengthened safeguards, and retrained staff.

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HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified

⚠ no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.

⚠ No discovery dateThe OCR public portal omits the discovery date, so the 60-day notification clock cannot be evaluated from this source — only that the filing was submitted.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Dec 29, 2020

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed3,429 affectedView incident

Name: Sunshine State Health Plan
norm: sunshine state health plan
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: Sunshine State Health Plan
norm: sunshine state health plan
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 3,429nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Health planBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1530 Data from Cloud Storage
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified HHS

During the incident: Notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Provided a complimentary phone number for questions or concerns
Updated batch processing software to improve quality controls
Strengthened administrative safeguards to better protect PHI
Retrained all workforce members
Changes made: Updated batch processing software to improve quality controls
Strengthened administrative safeguards to better protect PHI
Retrained all workforce members
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: HHS notified
Discovery-date grounding: no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
HIPAA
Discovered: not extracted
→ Notified: not extracted
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: not extracted → Notified: not extracted	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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://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: Dec 29, 2020
Raw hash: 98574b08a7a91861d294249a74615194344b29eec19c66ee51c36ec4feee27ff

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Reporting entitySunshine State Health Plan

Victim entitySunshine State Health Plan

IncidentMisconfiguration

Stated responseNotified HHS, affected individuals, and the media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing