NEW YORKAccidentalHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICHighResolved
Group Health Cooperative
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Full breach record for Group Health Cooperative →Group Health Incorporated (NY, Health Plan) reported to HHS on 2013-01-02 a Theft/accidental disclosure affecting 1,771 individuals. PHI — including social security numbers embedded in a series of numbers — was exposed on the outside of postcard reminders mailed to subscribers. OCR investigated; the CE suspended mailings, modified procedures to eliminate SSNs from outbound mail, retrained staff, and provided one year of free credit monitoring to affected individuals. Breached information located on Paper/Films.
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.Confirmed1,771 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
- Jan 2, 2013
- Raw hash
- 1b85e975986343e7f3fc0b48fea616c13a9d63430a01e45018d0d403e23581eb
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Group Health Cooperativenorm: group health cooperative
- Industry
- Insurance — Health
Victim entity
- Name
- Group Health Cooperativenorm: group health cooperative
- Industry
- Insurance — Health
- Industry
- Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 1,771
- Data types
- IDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Misconfiguration
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR investigation opened
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.