MisuseHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcarePrivilege AbuseSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)PHIHealth (basic)MediumContained

MOLINA HEALTHCARE, INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jul 20, 2015

Filed

Sep 18, 2015

To disclose

9 weeks

Affected

7,767state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for MOLINA HEALTHCARE, INC. →7 incidents on file

Molina Healthcare of Washington reported that a former CVS employee, a third-party vendor administering OTC benefits, impermissibly transferred PHI of 7,767 Washington Medicare members to a personal computer around March 26, 2015. Molina was notified on July 20, 2015. Data included names, IDs, and plan details. CVS replaced cards and offered identity theft protection.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 116 days

discovery → filing · 9 weeks / 60 days

Mar 26, 2015

Begins

Jul 20, 2015

Discovered

Sep 18, 2015

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

HHS OCRbd_3dba441f259d8d462015-09-18Candidate

Name: MOLINA HEALTHCARE, INC.
norm: molina healthcare
Domain: molinahealthcare.com

Name: MOLINA HEALTHCARE, INC.
norm: molina healthcare
Domain: molinahealthcare.com
Industry: HealthcarellmFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: Jul 20, 2015
Breach occurred: Mar 26, 2015
Undetected for: 116 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Sep 17, 2015
Affected individuals: 7,767state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)PHIHealth (basic)
Attack vector: Insider
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1119 Automated Collection
Threat actor: InternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified Attorney General Bob Ferguson
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Investigated the issue with CVS
Worked with CVS to investigate the breach and correct the problem
Offered free one-year membership of identity theft protection
CVS is replacing CVS ExtraCare Health Cards for affected individuals
Changes made: CVS implemented a proactive remediation and mitigation plan
Molina is monitoring CVS to ensure implementation of the plan
Working with CVS to even better secure your data and to ensure this does not happen again
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 9 weeks(60 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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HHS OCRSep 18 · first

Washington State AGSep 18 · first · this page

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://agportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/databreach/BreachM9586.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 18, 2015
Raw hash: d5040216767440facf0f7626994a263e076622e1cb0fe42bee79b03b2b55629b

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityMOLINA HEALTHCARE, INC.

Victim entityMOLINA HEALTHCARE, INC.

Incidentdiscovered Jul 20, 2015

Stated responseInvestigated the issue with CVS

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com