AccidentalHealthcareTechnologyHealthcareMisconfigurationCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)LowContained

Wellfleet Group, LLC

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Aug 1, 2024

Filed

Oct 11, 2024

To disclose

10 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Wellfleet Group, LLC →

Wellfleet Group, LLC, a third-party administrator for student health insurance plans, disclosed a data security incident on October 11, 2024. On August 1, 2024, a website misconfiguration allowed deep-links to medical referral pages to be indexed by search engines without authentication. This exposed PHI including names, DOBs, and medical diagnoses. Wellfleet engaged third-party experts, fixed the misconfiguration, and offered 24 months of credit monitoring.

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Vermont clock✗ VT AG >45 bday10 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

discovery → filing · 10 weeks / 71 days

Aug 1, 2024

Discovered

Oct 11, 2024

Filed

vs. sector median

+1 wks slower

This filing is one of 5 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_b3b97e27a29f8c612024-10-11Verified
California State AGbd_e802c5df9583d5f02024-10-11Verified
HHS OCRbd_79666de62511cf322024-10-08 · +3dVerified
California State AGbd_13dbd31fe1337ade2024-11-11 · +31dVerified

Name: Wellfleet Group, LLC
norm: wellfleet group

Name: Wellfleet Group, LLC
norm: wellfleet group
Industry: HealthcarellmTechnologyllm

Discovered: Aug 1, 2024
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Oct 11, 2024
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

During the incident: Engaged leading third-party experts to investigate the scope of and remediate the problem
Disabled the misconfiguration
Removed the Referrals from the Internet
Identified any other misconfigurations with the Website
Conducted a thorough review of that data
Updated and reset data security controls for the Website
Offering complimentary credit monitoring and fraud prevention services through Experian Identity Works for 24 months
Changes made: Revamping standard review and technical support of all applications and software development processes to help prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 10 weeks(71 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: VT AG >45 bday
Discovery-date grounding: 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.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 4 states

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HHS OCROct 8 · first

Montana State AG+3d

California State AG+3d

Vermont State AG+3d · this page

California State AG+34d

Pattern: first filing Oct 8 (MA), last Nov 11 (CA) — a 34-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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://ago.vermont.gov/document/2024-10-11-wellfleet-group-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Oct 11, 2024
Raw hash: da1d6e072144336e7d51e02b89de531dcf67f9bc32494cf216bb5789d66532dd

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityWellfleet Group, LLC

Victim entityWellfleet Group, LLC

Incidentdiscovered Aug 1, 2024

Stated responseEngaged leading third-party experts to investigate the scope of and remediate the problem

ComplianceVT AG >45 bday

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceago.vermont.gov