PAAccidentalHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHighResolved
Highmark Inc
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Full breach record for Highmark Inc →Highmark Inc. (Business Associate) reported to HHS on 2014-07-08 a misdelivery (Theft) affecting 2,589 individuals. Health profile and care summaries with cover letters were incorrectly mailed to senior members of Highmark Health and their physicians. PHI exposed included names, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, unique medical identifiers, gender, medications, and health information. Root cause was a process failure by an employee, who was subsequently terminated.
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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2,589 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- 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 8, 2014
- Raw hash
- f111eda1be3f1a8387ee6adbd0181b4b4b8502411acea5c9b462aca0cdc1a71d
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Highmark Incnorm: highmark
- Domain
- highmark.com
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Highmark Incnorm: highmark
- Domain
- highmark.com
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 2,589
- Data types
- PHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- Notified HHSOCR conducted investigationOCR obtained details of the CE's revised policies on its health profiles to assure they include only the minimum necessary information
Compliance
- 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
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.