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TENNESSEEMisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Medium

Tennessee Rural Health Improvement Association

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 13, 2015

To disclose

—

Affected

79,000

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Tennessee Rural Health Improvement Association →2 incidents on file

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.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Jan 13, 2015

Filed

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

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed79,000 affectedView incident

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.