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AMERITAS LIFE INSURANCE CORP.

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Full breach record for AMERITAS LIFE INSURANCE CORP. →

Ameritas Life Insurance Corp. (NE) reported to HHS on 2019-07-08 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 39,675 individuals (39,675 per HHS portal; 69,106 cited in the web description). Multiple employees were subjected to an email phishing scheme, exposing PHI including names, addresses, email addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, member ID numbers, and life insurance information. Breached information was located in Email systems. The CE notified affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website. Remediation included enhanced safeguards and workforce retraining on phishing identification. Business associate was not involved.

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.

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

bd_232628a43e3cf882Montana State AGfiled 2019-07-08Candidate
bd_9f1469c41d78006fCalifornia State AGfiled 2019-07-08Candidate

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: Jul 8, 2019
Raw hash: cb69a834115adf794777d70f3c88072f2f20867a95cf10d9d755513cb4893e2b

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Reporting entity

Name: AMERITAS LIFE INSURANCE CORP.
norm: ameritas life insurance
Industry: Insurance — Health

Victim entity

Name: AMERITAS LIFE INSURANCE CORP.
norm: ameritas life insurance
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm

Incident

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 39,675
Data types: IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 PhishingT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: HHS OCR notified
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

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.