GASocial EngineeringHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTHighResolved
AFLAC INCORPORATED
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Full breach record for AFLAC INCORPORATED →AFLAC (Health Plan, GA) reported to HHS on 2018-05-29 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 10,396 individuals. Multiple business associates were victims of an email phishing scheme that compromised ePHI including names, addresses, birthdates, Social Security numbers, clinical information, claims data, and health insurance information. A forensic investigation was conducted; free credit monitoring was offered. OCR provided technical assistance and obtained corrective-action assurances. Breached information located on Email.
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.Confirmed10,396 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
- May 29, 2018
- Raw hash
- 3d1969195cd4b7c1e031530b0dd3e0cac0d0ae4256482806ff75c3c4123496ba
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- AFLAC INCORPORATEDnorm: aflac
- Domain
- aflac.com
- Industry
- Insurance — Health
Victim entity
- Name
- AFLAC INCORPORATEDnorm: aflac
- Domain
- aflac.com
- Industry
- Insurance — Health
- Industry
- Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 10,396
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1566 PhishingT1078 Valid Accounts
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Regulator citations
- OCR provided technical assistance to the CE on the HIPAA Breach Notification Rule.OCR obtained assurances that the CE and BA implemented the corrective actions noted.
- 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
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.