ARIZONAHackingHealthcareHealthcarePhishingBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHighContained

Pima County

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Sep 12, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

1,498

Confidence

68%

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Pima County reported to HHS on 2019-09-12 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 1498 individuals. Breached information located on Email. An employee of business associate Ameritas was the victim of an email phishing scheme affecting ePHI (names, birthdates, SSNs). The BA implemented technical safeguards, retrained staff, sanctioned the employee, and provided credit monitoring.

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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 12, 2019

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.Confirmed1,498 affectedView incident

Name: Pima County
norm: pima county
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: Pima County
norm: pima county
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,498nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Health planBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: External
Third party: via Ameritasbusiness associate
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: The responsible employee was sanctioned
Affected individuals were provided with complimentary credit monitoring services
Changes made: The BA implemented additional technical safeguards
Retrained its staff on the proper methods of identifying fraudulent email communications
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 12, 2019
Raw hash: d54cd26950e6b37b747f060e2a880ae93b7794fca7ec86ed25d68ec3ba81390e

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Reporting entityPima County

Victim entityPima County

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseThe responsible employee was sanctioned

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing