NEBRASKASocial EngineeringHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial accountHighResolved

AMERITAS LIFE INSURANCE CORP.

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Jul 8, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

39,675

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for AMERITAS LIFE INSURANCE CORP. →7 incidents on file

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.

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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

Jul 8, 2019

Filed

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Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_232628a43e3cf8822019-07-08Candidate
California State AGbd_9f1469c41d78006f2019-07-08Candidate
Massachusetts State AGbd_9185045f7bac67632019-07-11 · +3dVerified

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

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

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 39,675nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial account
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 PhishingT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: HHS OCR notified
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified media
Posted substitute notice on website
Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Retrained workforce on email security precautions and identifying fraudulent email communications
Changes made: Enhanced administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Workforce retraining on email security and phishing identification
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 · 4 filings · 4 states

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Montana State AGJul 8 · first

California State AGJul 8 · first

HHS OCRJul 8 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+3d

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: Jul 8, 2019
Raw hash: cb69a834115adf794777d70f3c88072f2f20867a95cf10d9d755513cb4893e2b

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityAMERITAS LIFE INSURANCE CORP.

Victim entityAMERITAS LIFE INSURANCE CORP.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing