KANSASAccidentalHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Sunflower State Health Plan

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 25, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

1,625

Confidence

96%

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Sunflower State Health Plan (KS) reported to HHS on 2019-01-25 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 1,625 individuals. The health plan inadvertently mailed PHI to wrong recipients; breached data included names and insurance information (location: Other). The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and media. Corrective actions included implementing administrative safeguards against mailing errors and staff retraining. OCR obtained assurances of compliance.

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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

Jan 25, 2019

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,625 affectedView incident

Name: Sunflower State Health Plan
norm: sunflower state health plan
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: Sunflower State Health Plan
norm: sunflower state health plan
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,625nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Other
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: HHS OCR notified; OCR obtained assurances of corrective action implementation
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified media
Implemented administrative safeguards to prevent mailing errors
Retrained staff
Changes made: Administrative safeguards implemented to prevent future mailing errors
Staff retraining completed
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: Jan 25, 2019
Raw hash: 1987dddc5a45dfc49ebcc97c536d31b2457cabcbaa0359934ca0339701a6901e

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Reporting entitySunflower State Health Plan

Victim entitySunflower State Health Plan

IncidentMisconfiguration

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing