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Anthem Inc.

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Severity

Low

Discovered

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Filed

Oct 15, 2018

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

90%
Full breach record for Anthem Inc. →14 incidents on file

Regulator's decision — not a breach notification

This record is a regulator's decision, not the organisation's own breach notice. Breach-notification fields (discovery date, notification clock) are structurally absent — what this source establishes is the outcome and the provisions the decision cites.

Anthem, Inc. agreed to pay $16 million to HHS OCR to settle potential HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules violations resulting from cyberattacks that exposed the electronic protected health information of nearly 79 million people.

Incident timeline — partial

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Oct 15, 2018

Filed

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Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a breach filing is linked. This record is the regulator's action, not a breach notice. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 3 states

View merged incident ↗
HHS OCRFeb 13 · first
California State AGFeb 13 · first
Hawaii State AG+2d
HHS OCR enforcement+1340d · this page

Pattern: first filing Feb 13 (IN), last Oct 15 — a 1340-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 ceiling

  • instrument + outcome
  • amount as filed (USD)
  • CFR provisions
  • the breach it recites
  • discovery date
  • notification clock

The dates the agreement recites belong to the underlying breach, years earlier, and are kept as evidence of WHICH breach rather than as this record’s timeline.