NEW YORKMisuseHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHighResolved

MetroPlus Health Plan, Inc.

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Nov 20, 2014

To disclose

—

Affected

31,980

Confidence

75%

Full breach record for MetroPlus Health Plan, Inc. →3 incidents on file

An employee of MetroPlus Health Plan, Inc. emailed unencrypted files containing the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 31,980 members to personal and work email addresses. The exposed information included members’ names, addresses, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers. The health plan notified HHS and affected individuals, offered one year of credit monitoring, sanctioned the employee, and ensured the ePHI was deleted from the personal email account.

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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

Nov 20, 2014

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.Confirmed31,980 affectedView incident

Name: MetroPlus Health Plan, Inc.
norm: metroplus health plan
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: MetroPlus Health Plan, Inc.
norm: metroplus health plan
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 31,980nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Other
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Unknown
Threat actor: Internal

During the incident: Conducted an internal investigation
Sanctioned the employee
Ensured the ePHI was deleted from the employee’s personal email account
Changes made: Offered one year of credit monitoring services
Reminded employees regarding prohibitions against emailing members’ ePHI to personal email accounts
Conducted a risk analysis and implemented a corresponding risk management plan
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: Nov 20, 2014
Raw hash: 09aaa2220f40241692e6eab0fbde3d546fd2c086d73effafae3586047122922d

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Reporting entityMetroPlus Health Plan, Inc.

Victim entityMetroPlus Health Plan, Inc.

IncidentUnknown

Stated responseConducted an internal investigation

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing