MONTANAPhysicalHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareLossCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountFinancialHighResolved

New West Health Services

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 15, 2016

To disclose

—

Affected

28,209

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

98%

Full breach record for New West Health Services →

New West Health Services d/b/a New West Medicare (Health Plan, MT) reported to HHS OCR on 2016-01-15 a Loss affecting 28,209 individuals. An employee's unencrypted laptop was stolen from a hotel meeting room. Breached ePHI included demographic info, SSNs, Medicare claim numbers, financial information, diagnoses, medical histories, and prescription data. The CE notified affected individuals and media, offered free credit monitoring, recalled and encrypted all laptops, added geo-location and remote-wipe capabilities, retrained staff, and sanctioned the involved employee. OCR obtained assurances of corrective action.

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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

Jan 15, 2016

Filed

—

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_a736a2b4b879b4342016-01-15Candidate
New Hampshire State AGbd_e3fc14d84ca074572016-01-15Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_b9d71238ba360aa82016-01-19 · +4dVerified

Name: New West Health Services
norm: new west health
Domain: newwestmedicare.com
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: New West Health Services
norm: new west health
Domain: newwestmedicare.com
Industry: Insurance — Health
Also named: New West Health Servicesdba oflegal entity
New West Medicaredba oftrade name
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 28,209nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountFinancial
HHS breach type: Loss
Where the data lived: Laptop
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: HHS OCR opened investigation; OCR obtained assurances that corrective actions were implemented.

During the incident: Provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media.
Provided free credit monitoring and identity theft protection services to affected individuals.
Recalled all laptops to ensure encryption.
Installed geo-location capabilities on all laptops.
Installed remote wiping software on all company-issued BlackBerry devices.
Sanctioned the employee whose laptop was stolen.
Retrained staff on HIPAA privacy and security requirements.
Created a new data incident response plan.
Changes made: Full-disk encryption deployed to all company laptops.
Geo-location tracking installed on all laptops.
Remote wipe capability installed on all company-issued mobile devices.
New data incident response plan created.
Staff retrained on HIPAA privacy and security.
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 · 3 states

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Montana State AGJan 15 · first

New Hampshire State AGJan 15 · first

HHS OCRJan 15 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+4d

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 15, 2016
Raw hash: 1445dd534dc5341eb711d890201d3b7469e739969911af2a78c2e03a8e9b7507

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Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityNew West Health Services

Victim entityNew West Health Services

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseProvided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media.

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing