WEST VIRGINIAHackingHealthcareHealthcareStolen CredentialsPhishingBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedMulti-Stage ChainPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumContained

West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Agency

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Feb 27, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

1,400

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Agency →

West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Agency reported to HHS on 2019-02-27 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 1400 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server. Unauthorized users registered for a portal operated by Availity, a subcontractor of the business associate Humana, gaining access to PHI.

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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

Feb 27, 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.Confirmed1,400 affectedView incident

Name: West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Agency
norm: west virginia public employees insurance agency
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Agency
norm: west virginia public employees insurance agency
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,400nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Health planBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1195 Supply Chain Compromise
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: OCR reviewed the CE’s BA agreementOpened a separate investigation of the Humana breach involving the subcontractor
Third party: via Availitybusiness associate subcontractor
Initial access: trusted_relationship

During the incident: Obtained written assurances from Availity that it implemented technical safeguards to limit the risk of such incidents in the future
Obtained written assurances from the BA regarding the HIPAA compliance of its subcontractors
Provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Changes made: Implemented technical safeguards to limit the risk of such incidents in the future
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: Feb 27, 2019
Raw hash: 17d18d7a6c960ce27c735879239deb9f85a1f8ab4238844d6a3581068a4925c3

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Reporting entityWest Virginia Public Employees Insurance Agency

Victim entityWest Virginia Public Employees Insurance Agency

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseObtained written assurances from Availity that it implemented technical safeguards to limit the risk of such incidents in the future

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing