MINNESOTAHackingHealthcareHealthcareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDEmploymentHighResolved

Ecolab Health and Welfare Benefits Plan

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Feb 26, 2016

To disclose

—

Affected

1,550

Confidence

68%

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Ecolab Health and Welfare Benefits Plan reported to HHS on 2016-02-26 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 1550 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server. The breach involved a business associate, Anthem, Inc., whose servers stored the plan's ePHI.

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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

Feb 26, 2016

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.Confirmed1,550 affectedView incident

Name: Ecolab Health and Welfare Benefits Plan
norm: ecolab health and welfare benefits plan
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: Ecolab Health and Welfare Benefits Plan
norm: ecolab health and welfare benefits plan
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,550nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDEmployment
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Health planBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: OCR opened a separate review of Anthem
Third party: via Anthem, Inc.business associate

During the incident: OCR opened a separate review of Anthem
Anthem agreed to pay a monetary settlement
Anthem undertaking a robust corrective action plan to comply with the HIPAA Rules
Changes made: Undertaking a robust corrective action plan to comply with the HIPAA Rules
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: Feb 26, 2016
Raw hash: f410055d5a49bfa3570eadd6c2d0c9700bf764e02edc11a9a8408770fc226f9f

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Reporting entityEcolab Health and Welfare Benefits Plan

Victim entityEcolab Health and Welfare Benefits Plan

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseOCR opened a separate review of Anthem

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing