NEW YORKAccidentalHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareDisposal ErrorCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICHighResolved
Affinity Health Plan, Inc.
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Full breach record for Affinity Health Plan, Inc. →Affinity Health Plan, Inc. (NY) reported to HHS OCR on 2010-04-14 a Theft/improper disposal breach affecting 344,579 individuals. Breached information was stored on photocopier hard drives that were returned to leasing agents without data erasure; CBS Evening News discovered the data on a purchased copier and alerted Affinity. OCR found Affinity failed to include photocopier ePHI in its risk analysis. A $1,215,780 settlement and corrective action plan were reached with HHS.
HIPAA clockDiscovered Apr 14, 2010 → Notified Apr 15, 20101d ✓ HIPAA 60-day OK≤1 day discovery → filing
⚠ filing dateThe stored discovery date equals the regulator filing date, so no genuine detection date was captured.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed344,579 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
- Apr 14, 2010
- Raw hash
- 7247586f41129809068e65d926835024490f2334408486397458ed4ba5497f5e
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Affinity Health Plan, Inc.norm: affinity health plan
- Industry
- Insurance — Health
Victim entity
- Name
- Affinity Health Plan, Inc.norm: affinity health plan
- Industry
- Insurance — Health
- Industry
- Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm
Incident
- Discovered
- Apr 14, 2010
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Apr 15, 2010
- Affected individuals
- 344,579
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Misconfiguration
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR settlement — $1,215,780 payment and corrective action plan
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- ≤1 day(0 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- HIPAA 60-day OK · 1dHHS notified · 1d
- Discovery-date grounding
- filing dateThe stored discovery date equals the regulator filing date, so no genuine detection date was captured.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status HIPAA Discovered: Apr 14, 2010→ Notified: Apr 15, 20101d 60 days HIPAA 60-day OK HIPAA Discovered: Apr 14, 2010→ Notified: Apr 15, 20101d regulatory submission HHS notified
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.