Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesHealthcareFinancePhishingStolen CredentialsEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDEmploymentHighContained

eHealthInsurance Services, Inc.

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Severity

High

Discovered

Jan 20, 2017

Filed

Jan 27, 2017

To disclose

7 days

Affected

2,016

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for eHealthInsurance Services, Inc. →2 incidents on file

eHealthInsurance Services, Inc. disclosed a phishing incident on January 20, 2017, where an employee mistakenly provided 2016 W-2 forms to a fraudulent actor. The compromised data included employee names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and wage information. The company is offering 24 months of credit monitoring to affected employees.

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California clockDiscovered Jan 20, 2017 → Notified Jan 27, 20177d ✓ CA 60-day OK7 days discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 7 days

Jan 20, 2017

Begins

Jan 20, 2017

Discovered

Jan 27, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

7 wks faster

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

New Hampshire State AGbd_82c69f747b8e18822017-01-27Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_e6d9d17c3bc20d472017-01-27Verified

Name: eHealthInsurance Services, Inc.
norm: ehealthinsurance services

Name: eHealthInsurance Services, Inc.
norm: ehealthinsurance services
Industry: Financial ServicesllmHealthcarellm

Discovered: Jan 20, 2017
Breach occurred: Jan 20, 2017
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 27, 2017
Affected individuals: 2,016nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDEmployment
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Contacted the IRSContacting certain state Attorneys General
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Working to investigate and mitigate its potential impact
Working to provide additional mandatory training to our employees on safeguarding the privacy and security of information on our systems
Contacted the IRS and will be contacting certain state Attorneys General as well
Changes made: Providing 24 months of complimentary Experian ProtectMyID credit and identity monitoring
Providing additional mandatory training to employees on safeguarding the privacy and security of information
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 7 days(7 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day OK · 7d
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 20, 2017
→ Notified: Jan 27, 2017
7d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Jan 20, 2017 → Notified: Jan 27, 2017	7d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day OK

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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New Hampshire State AGJan 27 · first

Massachusetts State AGJan 27 · first

California State AGJan 27 · first · this page

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/sb24-66072
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 27, 2017
Raw hash: f13a2048e2d68911c38a8f17b5e74c4f5619f4f2319fee3459f58acd309d084e

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityeHealthInsurance Services, Inc.

Victim entityeHealthInsurance Services, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Jan 20, 2017

Stated responseWorking to investigate and mitigate its potential impact

ComplianceCA 60-day OK

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov