CONNECTICUTSocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Health (basic)MediumResolved

United Way of Connecticut, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Sep 3, 2024

To disclose

—

Affected

8,039

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for United Way of Connecticut, Inc. →2 incidents on file

United Way of Connecticut, Inc. (a business associate) reported to HHS on 2024-09-03 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 8,039 individuals. An employee was the subject of an email phishing scheme that exposed PHI including names, addresses, dates of birth, medications, diagnoses, and other treatment information. Breached information was located in Email. The BA notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, offered free credit monitoring, implemented additional safeguards, and retrained staff on email security.

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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 3, 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.Confirmed8,039 affectedView incident

Name: United Way of Connecticut, Inc.
norm: united way of connecticut

Name: United Way of Connecticut, Inc.
norm: united way of connecticut
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 8,039nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Health (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 PhishingT1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified HHS OCR
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS, affected individuals, and media
Offered free credit monitoring to affected individuals
Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Retrained staff on email security
Changes made: Additional administrative safeguards implemented
Additional technical safeguards implemented
Additional security safeguards implemented
Staff retraining on email security
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 3, 2024
Raw hash: 62c1a21f1c565b2d9e645d249445f43a2e4aeb3461fea42599f786860548515c

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Reporting entityUnited Way of Connecticut, Inc.

Victim entityUnited Way of Connecticut, Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS, affected individuals, and media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing