LOUISIANASocial EngineeringHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumResolved

Starmount Life Insurance Company

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 9, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

630

Confidence

96%

Full breach record for Starmount Life Insurance Company →3 incidents on file

Starmount Life Insurance Company (LA), a Health Plan, reported to HHS on 2019-12-09 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 630 individuals. Several employees were victims of an email phishing scheme, compromising ePHI including names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, financial information, and member identification numbers. Breached information located in Email. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, and implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards. OCR obtained assurances of corrective action.

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HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified

⚠ no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.

⚠ No discovery dateThe OCR public portal omits the discovery date, so the 60-day notification clock cannot be evaluated from this source — only that the filing was submitted.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Dec 9, 2019

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed630 affectedView incident

Name: Starmount Life Insurance Company
norm: starmount life insurance
Domain: starmountlife.com
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: Starmount Life Insurance Company
norm: starmount life insurance
Domain: starmountlife.com
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 630nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 PhishingT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative safeguards
Implemented additional technical safeguards
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: HHS notified
Discovery-date grounding: no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
HIPAA
Discovered: not extracted
→ Notified: not extracted
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: not extracted → 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: Dec 9, 2019
Raw hash: 0d7198143e1aef8833a128a30d5c21f36caedaa4da923ef69cecb08e9be2e480

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Reporting entityStarmount Life Insurance Company

Victim entityStarmount Life Insurance Company

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing