DisclosureLens
NEW YORKMalwareHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareRansomwareCustomer Data InvolvedData EncryptedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Healthfirst

bd_30a785c0bb884175 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Mar 13, 2024

To disclose

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Affected

6,836

Confidence

96%
Full breach record for Healthfirst →4 incidents on file

Healthfirst, a New York-based Health Plan, reported to HHS OCR on 2024-03-13 a ransomware incident affecting the PHI of 6,836 individuals. Breached information was located on a Network Server. PHI exposed included names, addresses, and dates of birth. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, posted substitute notice on its website, offered free credit monitoring, and implemented additional safeguards and staff training.

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

Mar 13, 2024

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.Confirmed6,836 affectedView incident

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.