ILLINOISHackingHealthcareHealthcarePHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHighContained

C.E. Niehoff & Company

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 23, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

1,509

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for C.E. Niehoff & Company →

C.E. Niehoff & Company reported to HHS on 2021-12-23 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 1509 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server. The cyberattack compromised PHI including names, addresses, DOB, SSNs, diagnoses, and medications. The CE provided credit monitoring and strengthened 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

Dec 23, 2021

Filed

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Corroborated · see linked filings

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

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Indiana State AGbd_63922874a05f007c2021-12-23Verified
Maine State AGbd_6a8aff16ee7dbab52021-12-23Verified
Illinois State AGbd_cd66058a9f75ed4f2021-01-01 · +356dCandidate

Name: C.E. Niehoff & Company
norm: ce niehoff
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: C.E. Niehoff & Company
norm: ce niehoff
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,509nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1119 Automated Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified HHS

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Provided substitute notice
Provided complimentary credit monitoring services
Changes made: Strengthened its administrative and technical safeguards
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 · 4 filings · 3 states

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Illinois State AGJan 1 · first

Indiana State AG+356d

Maine State AG+356d

HHS OCR+356d · this page

Pattern: first filing Jan 1 (IL), last Dec 23 (IL) — a 356-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 23, 2021
Raw hash: 15dc0c719b5b82550b25b1ddadb0d7b3536b7ed03d90fcfd0d893da2c0ffdca8

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityC.E. Niehoff & Company

Victim entityC.E. Niehoff & Company

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing