TNAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMediumResolved
BLUECROSS BLUESHIELD OF TENNESSEE, INC.
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Full breach record for BLUECROSS BLUESHIELD OF TENNESSEE, INC. →BlueCross BlueShield of TN, Inc. reported to HHS on 2017-07-21 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 2117 individuals. Breached information located on Paper/Films. The entity erroneously mailed a monthly report to employer health plan administrators that included the PHI of members enrolled in another group due to a software discrepancy.
HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified16 days discovery → filing
⚠ AG web formThe discovery date came from the AG web-form field, which is systematically later than the detection date stated in the letter. Treat the clock as indicative.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2,117 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
- Jul 21, 2017
- Raw hash
- f8f9370b63a9f9a79dab8ba7535d1b7dfaa0cf39d1243631ae23116a1ca32af8
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- BLUECROSS BLUESHIELD OF TENNESSEE, INC.norm: bluecross blueshield of tennessee
- Domain
- bcbst.com
- Industry
- Insurance — Health
Victim entity
- Name
- BLUECROSS BLUESHIELD OF TENNESSEE, INC.norm: bluecross blueshield of tennessee
- Domain
- bcbst.com
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Jul 5, 2017
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 2,117
- Data types
- PHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Misconfiguration
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1530 Data from Cloud Storage
- Threat actor
- Internal
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 16 days(16 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- HHS notified
- Discovery-date grounding
- AG web formThe discovery date came from the AG web-form field, which is systematically later than the detection date stated in the letter. Treat the clock as indicative.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status HIPAA Discovered: Jul 5, 2017→ Notified: not extracted— regulatory submission HHS notified
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.