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Tennessee Rural Health Improvement Association
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Full breach record for Tennessee Rural Health Improvement Association →Tennessee Rural Health Improvement Association reported to HHS on 2015-01-13 a breach involving unauthorized access and disclosure of information affecting 79,000 individuals. A business associate, BlueCross BlueShield, created a mailing list of members to sell Medicare Advantage products, an action not permitted under their agreement. The breach exposed demographic information. In response, the association revised policies, enhanced security, and retrained its staff.
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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed79,000 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
- Jan 13, 2015
- Raw hash
- 66479eb29a463489a39190e38017fd1c8ab7f705143a17f57ec74f65dc3a0ff6
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Tennessee Rural Health Improvement Associationnorm: tennessee rural health improvement
- Industry
- Insurance — Health
Victim entity
- Name
- Tennessee Rural Health Improvement Associationnorm: tennessee rural health improvement
- Industry
- Insurance — Health
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 79,000
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- PartnerFinancial
- Regulator citations
- Notified HHSOCR reviewed the BA agreementOCR obtained assurances of corrective action
- Third party
- via BlueCross BlueShield
Compliance
- 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
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.