ALABAMAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHighResolved

Public Education Employees' Health Insurance Plan

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Severity

High

Discovered

Sep 9, 2016

Filed

Sep 9, 2016

To disclose

—

Affected

1,349

Confidence

70%

Full breach record for Public Education Employees' Health Insurance Plan →2 incidents on file

Public Education Employees' Health Insurance Plan reported to HHS on 2016-09-09 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 1,349 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server. An IT upgrade caused PHI including names, SSNs, and health data to be inadvertently viewable to other members via the Member Online System.

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HIPAA clock✓ HHS report on time

⚠ filing dateThe stored discovery date equals the regulator filing date, so no genuine detection date was captured.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · ≤1 day / 0 days

Sep 9, 2016

Discovered

Sep 9, 2016

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,349 affectedView incident

Name: Public Education Employees' Health Insurance Plan
norm: public education employees health insurance plan
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: Public Education Employees' Health Insurance Plan
norm: public education employees health insurance plan
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Sep 9, 2016
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,349nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1530 Data from Cloud Storage Object
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Provided breach notification to HHSOCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions listed above

During the incident: Investigated the incident
Worked in conjunction with Deloitte to revise the newly implemented software coding to terminate access to the documents involved in this incident
Applied an emergency fix on the same day that the incident was discovered
Revised its internal protocols for uploading documents
Provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Provided credit monitoring services to all affected individuals for 12 months at no cost to them
Changes made: Revised the newly implemented software coding to terminate access to the documents involved in this incident
Revised its internal protocols for uploading documents
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: HHS report on timeHHS notified
Discovery-date grounding: filing dateThe stored discovery date equals the regulator filing date, so no genuine detection date was captured.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
HIPAA
Discovered: Sep 9, 2016
→ Notified: not extracted
— 60 days HHS report on time
HIPAA
Discovered: Sep 9, 2016
→ Notified: not extracted
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: Sep 9, 2016 → Notified: not extracted	—	60 days	HHS report on time
HIPAA	Discovered: Sep 9, 2016 → 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: Sep 9, 2016
Raw hash: adfd073b37eb6f1ca0f3de364e370fcd18b5d12c5ee21bab86923f06191e5d6e

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Reporting entityPublic Education Employees' Health Insurance Plan

Victim entityPublic Education Employees' Health Insurance Plan

Incidentdiscovered Sep 9, 2016

Stated responseInvestigated the incident

ComplianceHHS report on time

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing