MisuseHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcarePrivilege AbuseEmployee Data InvolvedTargetedPIIGovernment IDHighContained

AmeriHealth Caritas Family of Companies

bd_40c96021babb9d95 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Nov 15, 2019

Filed

Jan 20, 2020

To disclose

9 weeks

Affected

5,563state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

65%

AmeriHealth Caritas Family of Companies notified providers in South Carolina that a former employee improperly downloaded confidential information, including names and SSNs, to a personal hard drive on November 15, 2019. The company contacted law enforcement and offered two years of credit monitoring. No improper use was known.

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South Carolina clock✓ SC CRA notice due9 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 9 weeks / 66 days

Nov 15, 2019

Discovered

Jan 20, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

3 wks faster

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

New Hampshire State AGbd_c9326e005426c6b92020-01-29 · +9dVerified
Delaware State AGbd_c65eab022bc01f382019-11-14 · +67dCandidate

Name: AmeriHealth Caritas Family of Companies
norm: amerihealth caritas
Domain: amerihealthcaritas.com

Name: AmeriHealth Caritas Family of Companies
norm: amerihealth caritas
Domain: amerihealthcaritas.com
Industry: HealthcarellmFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: Nov 15, 2019
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 24, 2020
Affected individuals: 5,563state-resident count only
Data types: PIIGovernment ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Insider
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: Internal
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Contacted law enforcement promptly
Pursuing appropriate action through law enforcement concerning the former employee
Offering complimentary two-year subscription to Experian’s credit monitoring and identity theft protection service
Looking into changes to controls and procedures to reduce risk of similar events
Changes made: Looking into changes to controls and procedures to reduce risk of similar events occurring in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 9 weeks(66 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: SC CRA notice due
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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Delaware State AGNov 14 · first

South Carolina State AG+67d · this page

New Hampshire State AG+76d

Pattern: first filing Nov 14 (DE), last Jan 29 (NH) — a 76-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 URL: https://consumer.sc.gov/sites/consumer/files/Documents/Business%20Resources%20Laws/Related%20Laws/Breaches/2020/AmeriHealthCaritas.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 20, 2020
Raw hash: 30d3b9feed41467097cdac7f515238dc0e90b079fad886cd3e5f8d7e33edc556

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityAmeriHealth Caritas Family of Companies

Victim entityAmeriHealth Caritas Family of Companies

Incidentdiscovered Nov 15, 2019

Stated responseContacted law enforcement promptly

ComplianceSC CRA notice due

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceconsumer.sc.gov