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HealthPartners Inc

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HealthPartners Inc (MN, Health Plan) reported to HHS on 2014-03-21 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 27,839 individuals. On January 21, 2014, an employee's husband accessed devices containing PHI while assisting her with telework tasks — formatting data and creating spreadsheet reports — thereby impermissibly receiving demographic and clinical information of 37,606 individuals (broader internal count). Breached information was located on Desktop Computer, Laptop, and Other Portable Electronic Device. HealthPartners implemented corrective measures including updated policies, employee training, encryption, removable-media controls, and network access restrictions. OCR obtained documented assurances of compliance.

HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified8 weeks 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.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed27,839 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: Mar 21, 2014
Raw hash: 9650bfee4cbc086996fcb735df7106312db9c519d875fa17770655cebc4b7fa8

Source filing

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Reporting entity

Name: HealthPartners Inc
norm: healthpartners
Domain: healthpartners.com
Industry: Insurance — Health

Victim entity

Name: HealthPartners Inc
norm: healthpartners
Domain: healthpartners.com
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm

Incident

Discovered: Jan 21, 2014
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 27,839
Data types: HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: HHS OCR — corrective action plan accepted; OCR obtained documented assurances of implementation
Initial access: insider_action

Compliance

Time to disclose: 8 weeks(59 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: HHS 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: Jan 21, 2014
→ Notified: not extracted
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: Jan 21, 2014 → Notified: not extracted	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Extraction provenance

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.