NEW YORKAccidentalHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareDisposal ErrorCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)HighResolved

Affinity Health Plan, Inc.

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Severity

High

Financial impact

$1.22M

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 14, 2010

To disclose

—

Affected

344,579

Linked

2 records

Confidence

96%

Full breach record for Affinity Health Plan, Inc. →3 incidents on file

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.

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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

Apr 14, 2010

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

This filing is one of 2 records about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Enforcement records (1)

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Name: Affinity Health Plan, Inc.
norm: affinity health plan
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: Affinity Health Plan, Inc.
norm: affinity health plan
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 15, 2010
Affected individuals: 344,579nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Theft
Where the data lived: Other
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: HHS OCR settlement — $1,215,780 payment and corrective action plan

During the incident: Filed breach report with HHS OCR on April 15, 2010
Entered into settlement with HHS including corrective action plan
Changes made: Affinity required to retrieve all hard drives from photocopiers remaining in possession of leasing agents
Implementation of policies and procedures for returning leased equipment
Measures to safeguard all ePHI going forward
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: Apr 15, 2010
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: not extracted → Notified: Apr 15, 2010	—	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: Apr 14, 2010
Raw hash: 7247586f41129809068e65d926835024490f2334408486397458ed4ba5497f5e

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Linked disclosures

Enforcement records (1)

Reporting entityAffinity Health Plan, Inc.

Victim entityAffinity Health Plan, Inc.

IncidentMisconfiguration

Stated responseFiled breach report with HHS OCR on April 15, 2010

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing