COLORADOAccidentalHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

KAISER FOUNDATION HEALTH PLAN OF COLORADO

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jul 24, 2014

Filed

Aug 12, 2014

To disclose

19 days

Affected

11,551

Confidence

96%

Full breach record for KAISER FOUNDATION HEALTH PLAN OF COLORADO →2 incidents on file

Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Colorado reported to HHS on 2014-08-12 an unauthorized access/disclosure affecting 11,551 individuals. On July 24, 2014, the covered entity erroneously mailed letters containing PHI (member names in a chronic condition management program) to incorrect recipients. Breached information located on Other medium. OCR's investigation resulted in the responsible employee being sanctioned and retrained. No business associate was involved.

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HIPAA clock✓ HHS report on time19 days discovery → filing

⚠ occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 19 days

Jul 24, 2014

Begins

Jul 24, 2014

Discovered

Aug 12, 2014

Filed

vs. sector median

6 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed11,551 affectedView incident

Name: KAISER FOUNDATION HEALTH PLAN OF COLORADO
norm: kaiser foundation health plan of colorado
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: KAISER FOUNDATION HEALTH PLAN OF COLORADO
norm: kaiser foundation health plan of colorado
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: Jul 24, 2014
Breach occurred: Jul 24, 2014
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 11,551nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: OtherUnauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Other
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: HHS OCR investigation resulted in sanction and retraining of responsible employee
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Breach notification sent to HHS
Breach notification sent to affected individuals
Breach notification sent to media
Changes made: Responsible employee sanctioned
Responsible employee retrained
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 19 days(19 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: HHS report on timeHHS notified
Discovery-date grounding: occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
HIPAA
Discovered: Jul 24, 2014
→ Notified: not extracted
— 60 days HHS report on time
HIPAA
Discovered: Jul 24, 2014
→ Notified: not extracted
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: Jul 24, 2014 → Notified: not extracted	—	60 days	HHS report on time
HIPAA	Discovered: Jul 24, 2014 → 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: Aug 12, 2014
Raw hash: 1dbe4007f63c94b77ab705549f373f11cdcf19db92abee27625acd0dbac2c361

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Reporting entityKAISER FOUNDATION HEALTH PLAN OF COLORADO

Victim entityKAISER FOUNDATION HEALTH PLAN OF COLORADO

Incidentdiscovered Jul 24, 2014

Stated responseBreach notification sent to HHS

ComplianceHHS report on time

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing