UTAHHackingHealthcareHealthcareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumContained

Apex EDI, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 31, 2017

To disclose

—

Affected

1,132

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Apex EDI, Inc. →

Apex EDI, Inc. reported to HHS on 2017-03-31 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 1,132 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server. The business associate was the victim of a cyber-attack affecting ePHI including names, DOB, addresses, claims, and diagnoses. The BA notified HHS, individuals, and media, provided identity theft monitoring, implemented safeguards, and retrained employees.

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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

Mar 31, 2017

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.Confirmed1,132 affectedView incident

Name: Apex EDI, Inc.
norm: apex edi
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Apex EDI, Inc.
norm: apex edi
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,132nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1119 Automated Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified HHSOCR provided technical assistanceObtained assurances that the BA implemented the corrective actions noted
Third party: via Apex EDI, Inc.business associate

During the incident: Notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Provided complimentary identity theft monitoring services
Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Retrained all employees
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect ePHI
Retrained all employees
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: Mar 31, 2017
Raw hash: 939e307065014232b05008a35337cc2b07e6d63fa668c64d74d5608284ed9c5e

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Reporting entityApex EDI, Inc.

Victim entityApex EDI, Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS, affected individuals, and the media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing