HackingHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareStolen CredentialsData MishandlingSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Data ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)MediumContained

Community Health Plan of Washington

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Nov 7, 2016

Filed

Jan 3, 2017

To disclose

8 weeks

Affected

2state residents only

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Community Health Plan of Washington →

Community Health Plan of Washington (CHPW) notified the NH AG of a breach affecting 2 NH residents. Unauthorized access occurred Jan 16, 2016, via a vulnerability in third-party provider Transactions Application Group (NTT Data). Data accessed: names, SSNs, DOBs, health claims coding. Discovered Nov 7, 2016. Notified Dec 21, 2016. FBI engaged; credit monitoring offered.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 296 days

discovery → filing · 8 weeks / 57 days

Jan 16, 2016

Begins

Nov 7, 2016

Discovered

Jan 3, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

This filing is one of 6 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

HHS OCRbd_e74e7ea642691fa12017-01-03Verified
Montana State AGbd_8eedda41b0dc71892016-12-29 · +5dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_d2a27a544a1af8442016-12-25 · +9dVerified
Washington State AGbd_0a35fce30888272b2016-12-21 · +13dCandidate

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HHS OCRbd_b14071585111bf302016-12-21 · +13dVerified

Name: Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, PLLC
norm: lewis brisbois bisgaard smith

Name: Community Health Plan of Washington
norm: community health plan of washington
Industry: HealthcarellmFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: Nov 7, 2016
Breach occurred: Jan 16, 2016
Undetected for: 296 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Dec 21, 2016
Affected individuals: 2state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1195 Supply Chain CompromiseT1190 Exploit Public-Facing ApplicationT1119 Automated Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified the Washington State Health Care AuthorityNotified the Washington State Office of the Insurance CommissionerReported the matter to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Third party: via Transactions Application Group, Inc.
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Disabled access to the server which stored these records
Launched an investigation
Engaged a digital forensics firm
Notified the Washington State Health Care Authority
Notified the Washington State Office of the Insurance Commissioner
Reported the matter to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Notified affected New Hampshire residents
Provided notice via press release
Provided 12 months of credit monitoring and identity protection services through Kroll
Changes made: Working with its technology services provider to increase the security of all CHPW member information
Working to prevent similar incidents in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 8 weeks(57 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 4 states

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Washington State AGDec 21 · first

HHS OCRDec 21 · first

Massachusetts State AG+4d

Montana State AG+8d

HHS OCR+13d

New Hampshire State AG+13d · this page

Pattern: first filing Dec 21 (WA), last Jan 3 (NH) — a 13-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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/community-health-plan-20170103.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 3, 2017
Raw hash: 46a0ca665be67969c1f033a47963d6b87f0299ed9948b23c13fc7f7e2b22c91e

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityLewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, PLLC

Victim entityCommunity Health Plan of Washington

Incidentdiscovered Nov 7, 2016

Stated responseDisabled access to the server which stored these records

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov