CTAccidentalHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareMisconfigurationBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTHighResolved

AETNA INC.

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Aetna, Inc. (Health Plan, CT) reported to HHS on 2017-10-23 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 1,506 individuals. A business associate, Real Time Health Quotes LLC (an insurance producer), stored PHI in an unsecured cloud storage application. Exposed data included names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, medical histories, bank account, and credit card information. Aetna notified HHS, media, and affected individuals; offered free credit monitoring; terminated the BA relationship; and initiated a review of cloud storage use among similar BAs. Breached information located on Network Server.

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.Confirmed1,506 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: Oct 23, 2017
Raw hash: e97db6b505ffcb9a6d62e4fcb982b8bbabe3a717f013a0da6486948563635c9e

Source filing

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Reporting entity

Name: AETNA INC.
norm: aetna
Domain: aetna.com
Industry: Insurance — Health

Victim entity

Name: AETNA INC.
norm: aetna
Domain: aetna.com
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm

Incident

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,506
Data types: IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access· Real Time Health Quotes LLC
MITRE ATT&CK: T1530 Data from Cloud Storage
Threat actor: Partner
Regulator citations: HHS OCR investigated business associate agreement; OCR reviewed BAA as part of breach investigation
Third party: via Real Time Health Quotes LLC

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

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.