VIRGINIAHackingHealthcareHealthcarePHIHealth (basic)Government IDIdentity (basic)HighContained

Defense Health Headquarters

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Sep 9, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

1,620

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Defense Health Headquarters →2 incidents on file

Defense Health Headquarters reported to HHS on 2020-09-09 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 1620 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server. A business associate was the victim of a cyber-attack involving ePHI (names, SSNs, birthdates, health insurance, addresses, treatment info). The CE notified HHS and individuals; the BA implemented additional safeguards.

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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

Sep 9, 2020

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.Confirmed1,620 affectedView incident

Name: Defense Health Headquarters
norm: defense health headquarters
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: Defense Health Headquarters
norm: defense health headquarters
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,620nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Government IDIdentity (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: The CE notified HHS

During the incident: The CE notified HHS and affected individuals
Changes made: The BA implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI
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: Sep 9, 2020
Raw hash: ebc155bd6c9a1b54cad403ede34f10a55273e690be92d9fcc28b7915cc931e91

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Reporting entityDefense Health Headquarters

Victim entityDefense Health Headquarters

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseThe CE notified HHS and affected individuals

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing