NEW JERSEYAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Horizon Healthcare Services Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 30, 2016

To disclose

—

Affected

55,700

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Horizon Healthcare Services Inc. →4 incidents on file

Horizon Healthcare Services Inc. d/b/a Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey reported to HHS on 2016-12-30 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 55,700 individuals. Breached information located on Paper/Films. A business associate discovered a printing error causing PHI intended for one member to be sent to another.

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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 30, 2016

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.Confirmed55,700 affectedView incident

Name: Horizon Healthcare Services Inc.
norm: horizon healthcare
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: Horizon Healthcare Services Inc.
norm: horizon healthcare
Also named: Horizon Healthcare Services Inc.dba oflegal entity
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey and its affiliatesdba oftrade name
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 55,700nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified HHSOCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions listed

During the incident: Improved quality control procedures for mailings performed by the BA
Added contractual requirements that require the BA to inform the CE in writing of all proposed production changes and obtain written approval from the CE before final production of printing jobs
Provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Changes made: Improved quality control procedures for mailings performed by the BA
Added contractual requirements that require the BA to inform the CE in writing of all proposed production changes and obtain written approval from the CE before final production of printing jobs
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 30, 2016
Raw hash: 071ef7b013c8a75a0ce53705ac3e66cef6c4ccb435656f8a83cd49b518c29d98

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Reporting entityHorizon Healthcare Services Inc.

Victim entityHorizon Healthcare Services Inc.

IncidentMisconfiguration

Stated responseImproved quality control procedures for mailings performed by the BA

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing