PENNSYLVANIASocial EngineeringHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial accountHighResolved

WORLDWIDE INSURANCE SERVICES, LLC

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 30, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

1,692

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

96%

Full breach record for WORLDWIDE INSURANCE SERVICES, LLC →3 incidents on file

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.

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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

Apr 30, 2018

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

This filing is one of 2 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_59671eea4aaa9d2a2018-04-30Verified

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

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

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,692nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial account
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Business associate
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

During the incident: Upgraded email encryption software
Implemented multi-factor authentication for email accounts
Trained employees on phishing emails and cyber threats
Changes made: Email encryption software upgrade
Multi-factor authentication implementation
Employee phishing awareness training
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.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Massachusetts State AGApr 30 · first

HHS OCRApr 30 · first · this page

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: Apr 30, 2018
Raw hash: c26e27b72b19cd225ec1a9914f0dfde08cb80829f1d78d4f10f0673c0f72c025

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityWORLDWIDE INSURANCE SERVICES, LLC

Victim entityWORLDWIDE INSURANCE SERVICES, LLC

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseUpgraded email encryption software

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing