INDIANASocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingTargetedMulti-Stage ChainLateral Movement ObservedData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryPHIPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)EmploymentCriticalResolved

Anthem Inc.

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Severity

Critical

Financial impact

$16.00M

Discovered

Jan 29, 2015

Filed

Feb 13, 2015

To disclose

15 days

Affected

78,800,000

Linked

4 records

Confidence

95%

Full breach record for Anthem Inc. →14 incidents on file

Anthem Inc., a health plan based in Indiana, reported to HHS OCR on 2015-02-13 (breach report filed 2015-03-13) that cyber-attackers exfiltrated ePHI for approximately 78.8 million individuals between 2014-12-02 and 2015-01-27, discovered on 2015-01-29. Initial access was via spear phishing of an Anthem subsidiary employee, leading to an advanced persistent threat intrusion. Stolen data included names, SSNs, medical identification numbers, addresses, dates of birth, email addresses, and employment information. Anthem agreed to a $16 million settlement and corrective action plan with HHS OCR to resolve potential HIPAA Privacy and Security Rule violations, including failures in enterprise-wide risk analysis, system activity review, incident response, and minimum access controls dating back to 2014-02-18.

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HIPAA clockDiscovered Jan 29, 2015 → Notified Mar 13, 201543d ✓ HIPAA individual notice OK15 days discovery → filing

⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Incident timeline

undetected · 58 days

discovery → filing · 15 days

Dec 2, 2014

Begins

Jan 29, 2015

Discovered

Feb 13, 2015

Filed

vs. sector median

7 wks faster

This filing is one of 4 records about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

California State AGbd_8f37e1c095a846da2015-02-13Verified
Hawaii State AGbd_76cd1b5530ae9e562015-02-15 · +2dVerified

Enforcement records (1)

HHS OCR enforcementbd_3d381b99b1c9318e2018-10-15 · +1340dVerified by operator

Name: Anthem Inc.
norm: anthem
Domain: anthem.com

Name: Anthem Inc.
norm: anthem
Domain: anthem.com
Industry: Health Plan
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Jan 29, 2015
Breach occurred: Dec 2, 2014 – Jan 27, 2015
Undetected for: 58 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 13, 2015
Affected individuals: 78,800,000nationwide
Data types: PHIPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Employment
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.001 Spearphishing AttachmentT1071 Application Layer ProtocolT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalEspionage
Regulator citations: HHS OCR breach report filed 2015-03-13HHS OCR Resolution Agreement and $16M settlementCorrective Action Plan

During the incident: Filed breach report with HHS OCR
Investigation by HHS OCR
Changes made: Corrective action plan under HIPAA Rules
$16 Million settlement payment to HHS OCR
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 15 days(15 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: HIPAA individual notice OK · 43dHHS report on time · 43dHHS notified
Discovery-date grounding: unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
HIPAA
Discovered: Jan 29, 2015
→ Notified: Mar 13, 2015
43d 60 days HIPAA individual notice OK
HIPAA
Discovered: Jan 29, 2015
→ Notified: Mar 13, 2015
43d 60 days HHS report on time
HIPAA
Discovered: Jan 29, 2015
→ Notified: Mar 13, 2015
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: Jan 29, 2015 → Notified: Mar 13, 2015	43d	60 days	HIPAA individual notice OK
HIPAA	Discovered: Jan 29, 2015 → Notified: Mar 13, 2015	43d	60 days	HHS report on time
HIPAA	Discovered: Jan 29, 2015 → Notified: Mar 13, 2015	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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California State AGFeb 13 · first

HHS OCRFeb 13 · first · this page

Hawaii 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://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: Feb 13, 2015
Raw hash: d1f04886fff43b36ebe6fbce587ca52153f9c2f1f4b942cadc97065846e88126

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Enforcement records (1)

Reporting entityAnthem Inc.

Victim entityAnthem Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Jan 29, 2015

Stated responseFiled breach report with HHS OCR

ComplianceHIPAA individual notice OK

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing