INDIANAMisuseHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareEmail MisuseMisuse OtherBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)HighResolved

Anthem Inc.

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Jul 24, 2017

To disclose

—

Affected

18,580

Confidence

96%

Full breach record for Anthem Inc. →14 incidents on file

Anthem, Inc. (Health Plan, IN) reported to HHS on 2017-07-24 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 18,580 individuals. LaunchPoint Ventures, LLC, a business associate, reported that an employee impermissibly emailed PHI — including names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, health insurance and treatment information — to his personal email account for identity theft purposes. LaunchPoint offered identity theft protection services, sanctioned the employee, retrained staff, and implemented additional administrative safeguards. 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

Jul 24, 2017

Filed

—

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.Confirmed18,580 affectedView incident

Name: Anthem Inc.
norm: anthem
Domain: anthem.com
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: Anthem Inc.
norm: anthem
Domain: anthem.com
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 18,580nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Health planBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access· LaunchPoint Ventures, LLC employee
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical MediumT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: InternalFinancial
Regulator citations: HHS OCR notified; OCR obtained assurances that corrective actions were implemented
Third party: via LaunchPoint Ventures, LLCbusiness associate
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Notified HHS, media, and affected individuals
LaunchPoint Ventures offered free identity theft protection and credit repair/monitoring services to all affected individuals
Employee responsible was sanctioned
All employees retrained
Additional administrative safeguards implemented
Changes made: Additional administrative safeguards implemented to further protect PHI
Employee sanctioned and all employees retrained
OCR obtained assurances of corrective actions
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: Jul 24, 2017
Raw hash: bcface68523fc7f7ad7468478c57fa3b8f438a8066ca3f106a67c9620aa43859

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Reporting entityAnthem Inc.

Victim entityAnthem Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS, media, and affected individuals

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing