NEW YORKSocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedPHIPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)HighResolved

Elderplan, Inc.

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Aug 5, 2017

To disclose

—

Affected

65,235

Confidence

94%

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

Elderplan, Inc. (NY-based health plan) reported that several employees fell victim to an email phishing scheme, exposing ePHI of 65,235 individuals. Affected data included names, health insurance information, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media; implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards; and retrained workforce on identifying phishing emails. OCR obtained assurances of corrective actions.

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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

Aug 5, 2017

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.Confirmed65,235 affectedView incident

Name: Elderplan, Inc.
norm: elderplan

Name: Elderplan, Inc.
norm: elderplan
Industry: Health Plan
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 65,235nationwide
Data types: PHIPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Phishing
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: HHS OCR obtained assurances that corrective actions were implemented
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Retrained workforce on identifying fraudulent email communications
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Workforce retraining on phishing identification
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: Aug 5, 2017
Raw hash: d8efd3faa2f5d366c04a866968963e827fb29c8a5ae62f2940e9304a4df983fb

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Reporting entityElderplan, Inc.

Victim entityElderplan, Inc.

IncidentPhishing

Stated responseNotified HHS, affected individuals, and the media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing