AccidentalHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareMisconfigurationData MishandlingSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryPHIHealth (basic)Government IDIdentity (basic)MediumContained

UniCare

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 2, 2008

To disclose

—

Affected

4state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for UniCare →2 incidents on file

UniCare notified the NH Attorney General that a third-party vendor failed to properly secure a server containing protected health information (PHI), making it temporarily accessible via the internet. The incident affected approximately 4 New Hampshire residents. The exposed data included member ID numbers, social security numbers, and pharmacy/medical data. UniCare secured the data, investigated the matter, and offered one year of credit monitoring to affected members.

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Incident timeline

Apr 2, 2007

Begins

Apr 2, 2008

Filed

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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_ac2e723b136c5dbd2008-04-02Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_8000f6e5c87c9d4e2008-04-04 · +2dVerified

Name: UniCare
norm: unicare

Name: UniCare
norm: unicare
Domain: unicare.com
Industry: HealthcarellmFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Apr 2, 2007
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 4, 2008
Affected individuals: 4state-resident count only
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Government IDIdentity (basic)
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General
Third party: via third party vendor
Initial access: external_remote_services

During the incident: Initiated an assessment and secured the PHI
Implemented additional security measures
Notified the members who we determined might have been impacted
Initiated an investigation into the matter
Addressing this issue with the vendor
Conducting a thorough inspection of their security practices
Changes made: Offering to pay for a credit monitoring service through Equifax Credit Watch for a period of one year
Conducting a thorough inspection of security practices to identify opportunities for improvement
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 2 states

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Massachusetts State AGApr 2 · first

New Hampshire State AGApr 2 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+2d

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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/unicare-20080402.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 2, 2008
Raw hash: 20f35e0aef025695b50d9b08e1b1e6a4673aa16a694f0e32441b6b6b1b2a26b6

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityUniCare

Victim entityUniCare

IncidentThird-Party / Supply Chain

Stated responseInitiated an assessment and secured the PHI

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov