AccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)LowResolved

Group Health Cooperative

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Sep 12, 2016

Filed

Sep 23, 2016

To disclose

11 days

Affected

651state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Group Health Cooperative →5 incidents on file

Group Health Cooperative notified Washington AG of a misdelivery error where termination letters containing member names, addresses, and member numbers were mailed to the wrong recipients. The incident affected 651 Washington residents. The breach was discovered on September 12, 2016, after letters were mailed between August 31 and September 2, 2016. No financial or health data was exposed. Kroll was engaged to provide one year of identity monitoring services.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 12 days

discovery → filing · 11 days

Aug 31, 2016

Begins

Sep 12, 2016

Discovered

Sep 23, 2016

Filed

vs. sector median

11 wks faster

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

HHS OCRbd_11f3c24d342ddbf12016-09-23Verified

Name: Group Health Cooperative
norm: group health cooperative

Name: Group Health Cooperative
norm: group health cooperative
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: Sep 12, 2016
Breach occurred: Aug 31, 2016 – Sep 2, 2016
Undetected for: 12 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Sep 12, 2016
Affected individuals: 651state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)
WA-stated cause: Theft or Mistake
WA-stated duration: lifecycle 1-99dexposure 1-99d
WA-stated discovery: Found after the fact
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1119 Automated Collection

During the incident: Secured the services of Kroll to provide identity monitoring at no cost to you for one year
Changes made: Reviewing our processes and taking steps to make sure something like this does not happen again
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 11 days(11 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings

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HHS OCRSep 23 · first

Washington State AGSep 23 · first · this page

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://agportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/databreach/BreachM9646.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 23, 2016
Raw hash: 324558418037299202649d57c68ef3e2ba4ee1dbc9e1bc1a180c2d5d8c7c4915

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityGroup Health Cooperative

Victim entityGroup Health Cooperative

Incidentdiscovered Sep 12, 2016

Stated responseSecured the services of Kroll to provide identity monitoring at no cost to you for one year

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com