NEW YORKAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)LowResolved

MetroPlus Health Plan, Inc.

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 3, 2017

To disclose

—

Affected

808

Confidence

69%

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

MetroPlus Health Plan reported to HHS on 2017-01-03 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 808 individuals. Breached information located on Other. Staff members sent unencrypted files containing ePHI and demographic information to a non-business-associate vendor. The vendor destroyed the data, and the entity retrained staff, updated training, and implemented new file transfer procedures.

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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 3, 2017

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.Confirmed808 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 default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 808nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Other
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1530 Data from Cloud Storage Object
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified HHSSubject to OCR investigation

During the incident: Ensured that its vendor destroyed the ePHI
Retrained the staff members responsible for the breach incident regarding information security
Updated its annual training to include information regarding interactions with its vendors, including data sharing
Implemented a new standard operating procedure regarding file transfers
Documented the unauthorized disclosure of its members’ ePHI for accounting of disclosure purposes
Provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Changes made: Perform a thorough and accurate risk analysis and establish a risk management plan
Implement technical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to ePHI that is being transmitted over an electronic communications network
Provide periodic security updates to workforce members regarding safeguarding ePHI in transmission
Revise its policies and procedures regarding breach notification
Provide training to workforce members on the revised policies and procedures
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 3, 2017
Raw hash: b43c13cdf8954f4ee236ae79d2642eef3a0776aa41ed5cc658abb12408a6fec8

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Reporting entityMetroPlus Health Plan, Inc.

Victim entityMetroPlus Health Plan, Inc.

IncidentMisconfiguration

Stated responseEnsured that its vendor destroyed the ePHI

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing