IDAHOSocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePretextingAbuse Of FunctionalityCustomer Data InvolvedWire FraudIdentity (basic)Health (basic)Financial accountFinancialMediumResolved

BLUE CROSS OF IDAHO HEALTH SERVICE, INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 19, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

6,045

Confidence

50%

Full breach record for BLUE CROSS OF IDAHO HEALTH SERVICE, INC. →3 incidents on file

Blue Cross of Idaho Health Service, Inc. reported to HHS on April 19, 2019, that an unauthorized individual impersonated a healthcare provider to gain access to its provider web portal, affecting 6,045 individuals. The actor accessed names, health insurance, clinical, and financial information and attempted to reroute payments to a fraudulent bank account. In response, the entity stopped the fraudulent payment, initiated an investigation, revised policies, retrained staff on social engineering, and offered three years of credit monitoring to affected individuals.

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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

Apr 19, 2019

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

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Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed6,045 affectedView incident

Name: BLUE CROSS OF IDAHO HEALTH SERVICE, INC.
norm: blue cross of idaho health service
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: BLUE CROSS OF IDAHO HEALTH SERVICE, INC.
norm: blue cross of idaho health service
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 6,045nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Health (basic)Financial accountFinancial
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Other
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified HHSOCR provided technical assistance regarding the HIPAA Security Rule

During the incident: Immediately stopped payment to the fraudulent bank account
Began an investigation
Changes made: Revised its policies and procedures
Retrained employees on social engineering and securing provider accounts
Provided affected individuals with three years of complimentary credit monitoring and identity restoration services
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: Apr 19, 2019
Raw hash: 167811ad3ab0d4b5312a5bef979687dee4325009ef1b1d2b14f2339eaf01858a

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Reporting entityBLUE CROSS OF IDAHO HEALTH SERVICE, INC.

Victim entityBLUE CROSS OF IDAHO HEALTH SERVICE, INC.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseImmediately stopped payment to the fraudulent bank account

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing