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PUERTO RICOAccidentalHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Triple-S Salud, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Sep 23, 2013

Filed

Nov 8, 2013

To disclose

7 weeks

Affected

13,336

Confidence

97%
Full breach record for Triple-S Salud, Inc.7 incidents on file

Triple-S Salud, Inc. (business associate of Puerto Rico Health Insurance Administration / Administración de Seguros Salud de Puerto Rico) was reported to HHS on 2013-11-08 for an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 13,336 individuals. On September 20, 2013, a vendor of Triple-S Salud mailed pamphlets that displayed PHI (names, mailing addresses, health insurance claim numbers) on the outside. Discovery occurred September 23, 2013. Breached information located on Paper/Films. OCR investigation resulted in CE commitments to risk analysis, risk management planning, policy revision, and staff retraining.

HIPAA clock HHS report on time7 weeks discovery → filing
unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Incident timeline

undetected · 3 days
discovery → filing · 7 weeks / 46 days

Sep 20, 2013

Begins

Sep 23, 2013

Discovered

Nov 8, 2013

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed13,336 affectedView incident

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.