COLORADOAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHighResolved

Colorado Community Health Alliance

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Severity

High

Discovered

Nov 21, 2013

Filed

Jan 2, 2014

To disclose

6 weeks

Affected

1,918

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Colorado Community Health Alliance →

Colorado Community Health Alliance (CCHA)/Physicians Health Partners reported to HHS on 2014-01-02 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 1918 individuals. Breached information located on Email. A temporary employee of subcontractor Aerotek sent unencrypted ePHI to a personal account.

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HIPAA clock✓ HHS report on time6 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.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 6 weeks / 42 days

Nov 21, 2013

Begins

Nov 21, 2013

Discovered

Jan 2, 2014

Filed

vs. sector median

6 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,918 affectedView incident

Name: Colorado Community Health Alliance
norm: colorado community health alliance
Industry: Business Associate

Name: Colorado Community Health Alliance
norm: colorado community health alliance
Industry: Business Associate
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Nov 21, 2013
Breach occurred: Nov 21, 2013
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,918nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1530 Data from Cloud Storage
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: OCR provided substantial technical assistance to the BA
Third party: via Aerotekbusiness associate
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: The BA developed and implemented a policy requiring that emails containing ePHI be encrypted
Trained its workforce members accordingly
Implemented additional procedures and technical safeguards
Provided written assurance that it will complete an enterprise-wide risk analysis
Changes made: Implemented a policy requiring that emails containing ePHI be encrypted
Trained its workforce members accordingly
Implemented additional procedures and technical safeguards
Provided written assurance that it will complete an enterprise-wide risk analysis
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 6 weeks(42 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: HHS report on timeHHS 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: Nov 21, 2013
→ Notified: not extracted
— 60 days HHS report on time
HIPAA
Discovered: Nov 21, 2013
→ Notified: not extracted
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: Nov 21, 2013 → Notified: not extracted	—	60 days	HHS report on time
HIPAA	Discovered: Nov 21, 2013 → 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: Jan 2, 2014
Raw hash: 8b7e230e4d511e4bbc879609403eb87dc075bb62e0438d2328a312403392e943

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Reporting entityColorado Community Health Alliance

Victim entityColorado Community Health Alliance

Incidentdiscovered Nov 21, 2013

Stated responseThe BA developed and implemented a policy requiring that emails containing ePHI be encrypted

ComplianceHHS report on time

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing