PUERTO RICOPhysicalHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareTheftFormer employee of Triple-S Advantage SolutionsBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedActor NamedDelayed DiscoveryHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHighResolved

Triple-S Salud, Inc.

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Severity

High

Discovered

Jan 14, 2014

Filed

Apr 15, 2014

To disclose

13 weeks

Affected

46,473

Confidence

96%

Full breach record for Triple-S Salud, Inc. →7 incidents on file

On March 27, 2014, Puerto Rico Health Insurance Administration reported to HHS a Theft affecting 46,473 individuals. A former employee of Triple-S Advantage Solutions (BA of Triple-S Salud) copied beneficiaries' ePHI—names, DOBs, contract numbers, HICN, home addresses, and SSNs—onto a CD before October 9, 2013, later downloading it at a new employer. Discovery occurred January 14, 2014. Breached info was on an Other Portable Electronic Device. OCR investigation led to risk analysis, policy revisions, and staff retraining commitments.

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HIPAA clockDiscovered Jan 14, 2014 → Notified Mar 27, 201472d ✗ HHS report late13 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Incident timeline

undetected · 97 days

discovery → filing · 13 weeks / 91 days

Oct 9, 2013

Begins

Jan 14, 2014

Discovered

Apr 15, 2014

Filed

vs. sector median

+2 wks slower

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed46,473 affectedView incident

Name: Triple-S Salud, Inc.
norm: triple s salud
Domain: salud.grupotriples.com

Name: Triple-S Salud, Inc.
norm: triple s salud
Domain: salud.grupotriples.com
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: Jan 14, 2014
Breach occurred: Oct 9, 2013
Undetected for: 97 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 27, 2014
Affected individuals: 46,473nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Theft
Where the data lived: Portable electronic device
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access· former employee of Triple-S Advantage Solutions
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: Former employee of Triple-S Advantage SolutionsInternal
Regulator citations: OCR investigation conducted; covered entity committed to risk analysis, risk management plan, policy revisions, and staff retraining
Third party: via Triple-S Advantage Solutionsbusiness associate
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Breach notification provided to HHS
Breach notification provided to affected individuals
Breach notification provided to media
Changes made: Risk analysis conducted
Risk management plan implemented
Policies and procedures revised
Staff retrained
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 13 weeks(91 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: HHS report late · 72dHHS notified
Discovery-date grounding: unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
HIPAA
Discovered: Jan 14, 2014
→ Notified: Mar 27, 2014
72d 60 days HHS report late
HIPAA
Discovered: Jan 14, 2014
→ Notified: Mar 27, 2014
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: Jan 14, 2014 → Notified: Mar 27, 2014	72d	60 days	HHS report late
HIPAA	Discovered: Jan 14, 2014 → Notified: Mar 27, 2014	—	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 15, 2014
Raw hash: f1af41c41c9e3fb44e50ec419a43571be36f55a723273f317af15fad6537e676

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Reporting entityTriple-S Salud, Inc.

Victim entityTriple-S Salud, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Jan 14, 2014

Stated responseBreach notification provided to HHS

ComplianceHHS report late

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing