MINNESOTAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INCORPORATED

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 15, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

1,755

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INCORPORATED →19 incidents on file

UnitedHealth Group reported to HHS on 2018-03-15 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 1755 individuals. Breached information located on Paper/Films. Enrollment packages containing PHI were incorrectly mailed to wrong recipients.

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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

Mar 15, 2018

Filed

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Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

HHS OCRbd_69fc1843b91b0cfe2018-04-10 · +26dCandidate

Name: UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INCORPORATED
norm: unitedhealth group
Domain: unitedhealthgroup.com
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INCORPORATED
norm: unitedhealth group
Domain: unitedhealthgroup.com
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,755nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified HHS

During the incident: Notified HHS and affected individuals
Updated its mailing procedures
Retrained its staff to better protect PHI
Changes made: Updated its mailing procedures
Retrained its staff to better protect PHI
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.

Filing propagation · 2 filings

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HHS OCRMar 15 · first · this page

HHS OCR+26d

Pattern: first filing Mar 15 (MN), last Apr 10 (MN) — a 26-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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: Mar 15, 2018
Raw hash: 0838452a24141155befae08d2691ccad9119b7f7fcccff59adf363eb8cbb610b

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityUNITEDHEALTH GROUP INCORPORATED

Victim entityUNITEDHEALTH GROUP INCORPORATED

IncidentMisconfiguration

Stated responseNotified HHS and affected individuals

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing