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MICHIGANSocial EngineeringHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHighResolved

PRIORITY HEALTH

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 21, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

36,812

Confidence

97%
Full breach record for PRIORITY HEALTH →4 incidents on file

Priority Health (Health Plan, MI) reported to HHS on 2020-12-21 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 36,812 individuals. A business associate employee was the subject of an email phishing scheme that compromised PHI including names, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers. Breached information located on Email. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, and revised its breach notification procedure. OCR provided technical assistance on the HIPAA Privacy and Breach Notification Rules.

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

Dec 21, 2020

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed36,812 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.