DisclosureLens
MARYLANDSocial EngineeringHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)HighResolved

CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 26, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

6,200

Confidence

97%
Full breach record for CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield →5 incidents on file

CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield (MD) reported to HHS on 2018-04-26 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 6,200 individuals. An employee was the victim of an email phishing attack that exposed ePHI including names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and health insurance information. Breached information was located in Email. The CE notified HHS and affected individuals, implemented additional technical safeguards, and retrained staff on recognizing fraudulent emails. OCR obtained assurances of corrective action.

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

Apr 26, 2018

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed6,200 affectedView incident

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.