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PENNSYLVANIAMisuseHealthcareHealthcareEmail MisuseData MishandlingBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPIIPHIIdentity (basic)MediumResolved

Byham's Insurance Services Inc.

bd_33c4e33ec9efccf4 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jun 27, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

1,600

Confidence

93%
Full breach record for Byham's Insurance Services Inc. →

An employee of Byham's Insurance Services (a HIPAA business associate) emailed PHI — names, insurance coverages, carriers, policy numbers, effective dates, and premium amounts — for 1,600 individuals to her husband. The BA notified HHS, affected individuals, and law enforcement, and sanctioned the employee. OCR provided technical assistance (including on media notice obligations) and the BA completed a risk assessment.

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

Jun 27, 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.Confirmed1,600 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.