PRPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedPHIPIIIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASICHighResolved

Medicare Choice Group

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Full breach record for Medicare Choice Group →

Thieves broke into PMC Medicare Choice's Humacao, Puerto Rico facility and stole four unencrypted desktop computers containing ePHI of 24,361 health plan members. Compromised data included names, addresses, phone numbers, Medicare HIC numbers, diagnosis and treatment information, health plan names and member IDs, enrollment information, claims information, and Social Security numbers. The covered entity notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media; repaired a damaged wall; improved facility security; and subsequently encrypted all computers at its regional offices. OCR closed the matter with assurances and stated expectations for risk analysis, contingency operations, facility security plan implementation, IT patching, and encryption of ePHI.

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.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed24,361 affectedView incident

Source provenance

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: May 9, 2011
Raw hash: 043e44efea4ba7e552bf23e89acc5f037ee0882c99db55997e18386a82ad9c29

Source filing

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Reporting entity

Name: Medicare Choice Group
norm: medicare choice
Domain: medicarechoicegroup.com
Industry: Health Plan

Victim entity

Name: Medicare Choice Group
norm: medicare choice
Domain: medicarechoicegroup.com
Industry: Health Plan
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Incident

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 24,361
Data types: PHIPIIIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASIC
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: HHS OCR breach report; OCR investigation closed with assurances of corrective action

Compliance

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

Extraction provenance

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.