CTSocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICHEALTH_BASICMediumResolved
United Way of Connecticut, Inc.
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Full breach record for United Way of Connecticut, Inc. →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.
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.Confirmed8,039 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
- Sep 3, 2024
- Raw hash
- 62c1a21f1c565b2d9e645d249445f43a2e4aeb3461fea42599f786860548515c
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- United Way of Connecticut, Inc.norm: united way of connecticut
Victim entity
- Name
- United Way of Connecticut, Inc.norm: united way of connecticut
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 8,039
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICHEALTH_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1566 PhishingT1566.002 Spearphishing Link
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- Notified HHS OCR
- 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.