PUERTO RICOPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedPHIPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)HighResolved

Medicare Choice Group

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

May 9, 2011

To disclose

—

Affected

24,361

Confidence

97%

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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.

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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

May 9, 2011

Filed

—

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.Confirmed24,361 affectedView incident

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

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

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 24,361nationwide
Data types: PHIPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)
HHS breach type: Theft
Where the data lived: Desktop computer
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: HHS OCR breach report; OCR investigation closed with assurances of corrective action

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Changes made: Repaired damaged wall
Improved physical security at facility and surrounding premises
Encrypted all computers at regional offices
OCR expectation: perform thorough and accurate risk analysis and establish risk management plan
OCR expectation: implement contingency operations procedures
OCR expectation: implement facility security plan policies and procedures
OCR expectation: regularly patch and update IT infrastructure
OCR expectation: encrypt/decrypt ePHI where appropriate and document technical safeguards
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: May 9, 2011
Raw hash: 043e44efea4ba7e552bf23e89acc5f037ee0882c99db55997e18386a82ad9c29

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Reporting entityMedicare Choice Group

Victim entityMedicare Choice Group

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing