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WORLDWIDE INSURANCE SERVICES, LLC

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Worldwide Insurance Services, LLC (PA) reported to HHS OCR on 2018-04-30 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 1,692 individuals. An unauthorized user gained access to employee email accounts via a phishing attack. PHI exposed included patients' names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, claims information, clinical information, and financial information. Breached information was located in Email. In response, the entity upgraded email encryption, implemented MFA, and trained employees on phishing threats. OCR provided technical assistance on timely breach notifications.

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.Confirmed1,692 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 30, 2018
Raw hash: c26e27b72b19cd225ec1a9914f0dfde08cb80829f1d78d4f10f0673c0f72c025

Source filing

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Reporting entity

Name: WORLDWIDE INSURANCE SERVICES, LLC
norm: worldwide insurance
Industry: Business Associate

Victim entity

Name: WORLDWIDE INSURANCE SERVICES, LLC
norm: worldwide insurance
Industry: Business Associate
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm

Incident

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,692
Data types: IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 PhishingT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: OCR provided technical assistance on timely breach notifications
Initial access: phishing_link

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

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.