MARYLANDSocial EngineeringHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASICHighResolved
CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield
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Full breach record for CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield →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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed6,200 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
- Apr 26, 2018
- Raw hash
- d2fca1c578a66a7a93d7d6d448812bd7119fe5407a2d79b2a162148de9938c75
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shieldnorm: carefirst blue cross blue shield
- Domain
- carefirst.com
- Industry
- Insurance — Health
Victim entity
- Name
- CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shieldnorm: carefirst blue cross blue shield
- Domain
- carefirst.com
- Industry
- Insurance — Health
- Industry
- Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 6,200
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1566 PhishingT1566.002 Spearphishing Link
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR notified; OCR obtained assurances that CE implemented corrective actions
- Initial access
- phishing_link
Compliance
- 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
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.