TENNESSEEMisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHighResolved

PathGroup

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 29, 2016

To disclose

—

Affected

1,443

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for PathGroup →

PathGroup reported to HHS on 2016-12-29 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 1443 individuals. An employee impermissibly uploaded files containing PHI, demographic info, and SSNs to a public online repository. The CE made the repository private, removed the PHI, and retrained its workforce.

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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

Dec 29, 2016

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,443 affectedView incident

Name: PathGroup
norm: pathgroup
Domain: pathgroup.com
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: PathGroup
norm: pathgroup
Domain: pathgroup.com
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,443nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Other
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1530 Data from Cloud Storage Object
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: provided breach notification to HHSOCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Had its employee immediately make the repository private and remove and destroy the PHI
Sanctioned the employee
Retrained its workforce
Disseminated educational material
Changes made: Retrained its workforce
Disseminated educational material
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: not extracted
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: not extracted → Notified: not extracted	—	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: Dec 29, 2016
Raw hash: e6195776c7915acbc509facaf56f6523a00705e88a1a0bbf5fe0bb6dcdea3a2b

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Reporting entityPathGroup

Victim entityPathGroup

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseHad its employee immediately make the repository private and remove and destroy the PHI

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing