NORTH CAROLINAAccidentalHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)LowResolved

North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Nov 13, 2015

To disclose

—

Affected

524

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services →6 incidents on file

North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (Health Plan, NC) reported to HHS on 2015-11-13 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 524 individuals. An employee sent an unencrypted email containing ePHI including names, claims, and treatment information. Breached information was located in Email. The CE sanctioned the responsible individual and implemented additional administrative and security safeguards. No business associate was involved.

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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

Nov 13, 2015

Filed

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

This filing is one of 2 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

HHS OCRbd_72328c8d89fcc24f2015-10-19 · +25dCandidate

Name: North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
norm: north carolina department of health and human
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
norm: north carolina department of health and human
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 524nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: HHS OCR notified
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Sanctioned the responsible employee
Implemented additional administrative and security safeguards
Changes made: Additional administrative safeguards implemented
Additional security safeguards implemented to better protect ePHI
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.

Filing propagation · 2 filings

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HHS OCROct 19 · first

HHS OCR+25d · this page

Pattern: first filing Oct 19 (NC), last Nov 13 (NC) — a 25-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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: Nov 13, 2015
Raw hash: 496f22a05a980cb9cc0869e6c78e21f2273304622957168f73a8e0a8f0d49bec

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityNorth Carolina Department of Health and Human Services

Victim entityNorth Carolina Department of Health and Human Services

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS, affected individuals, and the media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing