HackingHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareVulnerability ExploitStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedTargetedMulti-Stage ChainIdentity (basic)EmploymentLowContained

Nuance Communications, Inc

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Feb 5, 2015

Filed

Mar 20, 2015

To disclose

6 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Nuance Communications, Inc →6 incidents on file

Anthem, Inc. suffered a sophisticated external cyber-attack discovered on Jan 29, 2015. BCBSMA notified Nuance Medical Plan participants on Mar 2, 2015. Data accessed included names, DOB, gender, member IDs, addresses, phone, email, and employment info. No SSN or financial data compromised. Anthem offered 2 years of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 6 weeks / 43 days

Feb 5, 2015

Discovered

Mar 20, 2015

Filed

vs. sector median

3 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident

Name: Nuance Communications, Inc
norm: nuance communications
Domain: nuance.com

Name: Nuance Communications, Inc
norm: nuance communications
Domain: nuance.com
Industry: HealthcarellmFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: Feb 5, 2015
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 2, 2015
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Employment
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing ApplicationT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Third party: via Anthem, Inc.
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

Changes made: Requesting affected members to obtain a new subscriber ID number
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 6 weeks(43 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/anthem-20150320.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 20, 2015
Raw hash: faec91427a394eb25e5511a96898dce0608d8ed0ac26fa7edd1591c845d94572

Reporting entityNuance Communications, Inc

Victim entityNuance Communications, Inc

Incidentdiscovered Feb 5, 2015

Stated responseRequesting affected members to obtain a new subscriber ID number

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov