AccidentalHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareMisconfigurationSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedMulti-Stage ChainIdentity (basic)MediumContained

Providence Health Plan

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Apr 17, 2020

Filed

Jun 16, 2020

To disclose

9 weeks

Affected

3,324state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Providence Health Plan →4 incidents on file

Providence Health Plan (PHP) filed a supplemental notice to the Washington AG regarding a security incident involving its business associate, Zipari. Unauthorized parties accessed unencrypted enrollment documents stored in a misconfigured AWS S3 bucket in May, September, and November 2019. The data included names, dates of birth, and employer plan details. PHP identified 3,324 affected Washington residents. Zipari encrypted the files, conducted forensic audits, and offered credit monitoring.

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Washington clock⏱ WA AG >30d9 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ AG web formThe discovery date came from the AG web-form field, which is systematically later than the detection date stated in the letter. Treat the clock as indicative.

Incident timeline

undetected · 352 days

discovery → filing · 9 weeks / 60 days

May 1, 2019

Begins

Apr 17, 2020

Discovered

Jun 16, 2020

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

HHS OCRbd_93b1313e31a9e4e72020-06-16Verified

Name: Providence Health Plan
norm: providence health plan
Domain: providence.org

Name: Providence Health Plan
norm: providence health plan
Domain: providence.org
Industry: HealthcarellmFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: Apr 17, 2020
Breach occurred: May 1, 2019 – Nov 30, 2019
Undetected for: 352 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Sep 25, 2020
Affected individuals: 3,324state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)
Data elements: NameDate of birth
WA-stated cause: Unauthorized Access
WA-stated duration: lifecycle 300-399dexposure 200-299d
WA-stated discovery: Found after the fact
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Provided notice to Washington Attorney General as required by WAC 284-04-625Preparing to notify Office for Civil Rights

During the incident: Zipari moved quickly to encrypt the folder containing the enrollment documents
Zipari performed a forensic audit
Zipari remediated the coding error
Zipari implemented further access controls
Offering MyIDCare identity theft protection services through ID Experts
Changes made: Remediated the coding error that led to the incident
Implemented further access controls to prevent unauthorized access to these files
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 9 weeks(60 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: WA AG >30d
Discovery-date grounding: AG web formThe discovery date came from the AG web-form field, which is systematically later than the detection date stated in the letter. Treat the clock as indicative.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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HHS OCRJun 16 · first

Washington State AGJun 16 · 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://agportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/databreach/BreachM10561.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 16, 2020
Raw hash: a8365924bf8f8e5d089498187dbeaa3595ad1c8981622e719d0f136b7518e6ef

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityProvidence Health Plan

Victim entityProvidence Health Plan

Incidentdiscovered Apr 17, 2020

Stated responseZipari moved quickly to encrypt the folder containing the enrollment documents

ComplianceWA AG >30d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com