MINNESOTAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INCORPORATED

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

May 4, 2016

To disclose

—

Affected

5,330

Confidence

50%

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

United Health Group reported that members of its Louisiana Medicaid Plan had their names incorrectly matched with the wrong addresses, which resulted in letters containing protected health information being mailed to incorrect recipients. This breach affected approximately 5,330 individuals and involved their names, treatment information, and claims information.

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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

May 4, 2016

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

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

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed5,330 affectedView incident

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

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

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 5,330nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Internal

During the incident: Notified affected individuals
Notified prominent media outlets
Changes made: Offered one year of free identity theft services
Developing an automated solution to resolve mailing errors
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: May 4, 2016
Raw hash: d3c948c25f827fcf4c5693a1e342d13dd8bce400521eb6bbf481f6f09d8aa009

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Reporting entityUNITEDHEALTH GROUP INCORPORATED

Victim entityUNITEDHEALTH GROUP INCORPORATED

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified affected individuals

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing