PENNSYLVANIAMisuseHealthcareHealthcareStolen CredentialsBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumContained

Independence Blue Cross, LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jul 2, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

2,393

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Independence Blue Cross, LLC →4 incidents on file

Independence Blue Cross reported to HHS on 2020-07-02 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 2393 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server. Multiple employees shared passwords to computer systems and servers, compromising ePHI including names, claims, medications, and treatment info. CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards.

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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

Jul 2, 2020

Filed

—

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.Confirmed2,393 affectedView incident

Name: Independence Blue Cross, LLC
norm: independence blue cross
Domain: ibx.com
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: Independence Blue Cross, LLC
norm: independence blue cross
Domain: ibx.com
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 2,393nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified HHS
Third party: via Independence Blue Crossbusiness associate
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Offered complimentary credit monitoring services
Established a dedicated phone line for questions or concerns
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI
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: Jul 2, 2020
Raw hash: 659208d8908dc20cfd304baf25cfe7d5bbd865031fe92bb9028c96f35ab915bf

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Reporting entityIndependence Blue Cross, LLC

Victim entityIndependence Blue Cross, LLC

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing