PENNSYLVANIAAccidentalHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHighResolved

Highmark Inc

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Jul 8, 2014

To disclose

—

Affected

2,589

Confidence

95%

Full breach record for Highmark Inc →8 incidents on file

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.

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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 8, 2014

Filed

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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.Confirmed2,589 affectedView incident

Name: Highmark Inc
norm: highmark
Domain: highmark.com
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Highmark Inc
norm: highmark
Domain: highmark.com
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 2,589nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Theft
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Business associate
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

During the incident: Provided breach notification to HHS, the media, and affected individuals
Issued a new UMI to each member impacted by the incident
Terminated the employee responsible for the process failure
Changes made: Instituted new quality review procedures for mailings
Retrained employees on its privacy practices and departmental policies, processes and procedures
Revised policies on health profiles to assure they include only the minimum necessary information
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 8, 2014
Raw hash: f111eda1be3f1a8387ee6adbd0181b4b4b8502411acea5c9b462aca0cdc1a71d

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Reporting entityHighmark Inc

Victim entityHighmark Inc

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseProvided breach notification to HHS, the media, and affected individuals

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing