NORTH CAROLINAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Oct 19, 2015

To disclose

—

Affected

1,615

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services →6 incidents on file

North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services reported to HHS on 2015-10-19 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 1615 individuals. Breached information located on Email. An employee sent unencrypted ePHI (names, claims, treatment info) to an unauthorized recipient.

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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

Oct 19, 2015

Filed

—

Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

HHS OCRbd_4d23d9f318592a572015-11-13 · +25dCandidate

Name: North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
norm: north carolina department of health and human
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
norm: north carolina department of health and human
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,615nationwide
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 PhishingT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified HHS

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Sanctioned the responsible individual
Implemented additional security safeguards to better protect its ePHI
Changes made: Implemented additional security safeguards to better protect its ePHI
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.

Filing propagation · 2 filings

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HHS OCROct 19 · first · this page

HHS OCR+25d

Pattern: first filing Oct 19 (NC), last Nov 13 (NC) — a 25-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://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: Oct 19, 2015
Raw hash: c4310e5fb35f9d86be8b1a404a906feeed420531ac6566f4468c2a31ea7960fa

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityNorth Carolina Department of Health and Human Services

Victim entityNorth Carolina Department of Health and Human Services

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing