WASHINGTONSocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDCriticalContained

Vimly Benefit Solutions, Inc.

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Severity

Critical

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 13, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

182,947

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Vimly Benefit Solutions, Inc. →4 incidents on file

Vimly Benefit Solutions, Inc. reported to HHS on 2019-12-13 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 182,947 individuals. Breached information located on Email. Employees were victims of an email phishing scheme affecting ePHI (names, DOB, addresses, SSNs, enrollment info). The BA provided credit monitoring and retrained staff.

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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 13, 2019

Filed

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

This filing is one of 6 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_b14167d0f83898362019-12-18 · +5dVerified
Montana State AGbd_1ad8d33ebbf7dc372019-12-19 · +6dVerified
Oregon State AGbd_26e53675705704bb2019-12-19 · +6dVerified
Washington State AGbd_33b843b68e1a6ce02019-12-19 · +6dVerified

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Massachusetts State AGbd_de7b7402e3b33b302019-12-19 · +6dVerified

Name: Vimly Benefit Solutions, Inc.
norm: vimly benefit
Industry: Business Associate

Name: Vimly Benefit Solutions, Inc.
norm: vimly benefit
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 182,947nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified HHSOCR provided technical assistance to the BA and obtained assurances that the BA implemented the corrective actions noted
Third party: via Vimly Benefit Solutions, Inc.business associate
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Provided complimentary credit monitoring services to affected individuals
Established a toll-free number for questions and concerns
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards
Retrained its staff
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.

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 4 states

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HHS OCRDec 13 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+5d

Montana State AG+6d

Oregon State AG+6d

Washington State AG+6d

Massachusetts State AG+6d

Pattern: first filing Dec 13 (WA), last Dec 19 (MA) — a 6-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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 13, 2019
Raw hash: ef77ca4cc428f1616581434790d62aaea63ef693b7114e6af5c37606cc92cd7d

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityVimly Benefit Solutions, Inc.

Victim entityVimly Benefit Solutions, Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS, affected individuals, and the media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing