NEW YORKHackingHealthcareHealthcarePHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumContained

VNS Health Health Plans

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 8, 2023

To disclose

—

Affected

13,584

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for VNS Health Health Plans →2 incidents on file

VNS CHOICE d/b/a VNS Health Health Plans reported to HHS on 2023-12-08 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 13,584 individuals. Breached information located on Email. The breach involved an email phishing scheme compromising PHI (names, addresses, DOB, claims, diagnoses, lab results, medications).

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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

Dec 8, 2023

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.Confirmed13,584 affectedView incident

Name: VNS Health Health Plans
norm: vns health health plans
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: VNS Health Health Plans
norm: vns health health plans
Also named: VNS CHOICEdba oflegal entity
VNS Health Health Plansdba oftrade name
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 13,584nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified HHS
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Staff were retrained on email security precautions
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Staff were retrained on email security precautions
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: Dec 8, 2023
Raw hash: e6f583b1b6f96a17f0d8f6f65711a297ec4fac9cc322493f5f8ae815409b5bcd

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Reporting entityVNS Health Health Plans

Victim entityVNS Health Health Plans

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseImplemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing