FEDERALAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICEMPLOYMENTMedium
American Fidelity Assurance Company
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Full breach record for American Fidelity Assurance Company →American Fidelity Assurance Company reported that it erroneously mailed letters to 2,664 customers containing pages that belonged to other customers. The incident was caused by a mailroom equipment malfunction and a subsequent manual sorting error by an employee. The breached information included names, employer details, provider names, and treatment dates. In response, the company retrained staff, offered credit monitoring, and outsourced its mailing process to a business associate with a fully automated and audited system.
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.Confirmed2,664 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
- Apr 13, 2016
- Raw hash
- 41eac0cf255d1f828d107cd03123f1a7b14b6c1434e9618f09fa5a675d6447c3
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- American Fidelity Assurance Companynorm: american fidelity assurance
- Industry
- Insurance — Health
Victim entity
- Name
- American Fidelity Assurance Companynorm: american fidelity assurance
- Industry
- Insurance — Health
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 2,664
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICEMPLOYMENT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- Notified HHSOCR obtained assurances of corrective action
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.