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HackingHealthcareHealthcareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPIIPHIMediumContained

Blue Shield of California

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 30, 2023

Filed

Mar 27, 2023

To disclose

8 weeks

Affected · nationwide

63,34144 in this filing

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

50%

Blue Shield of California, acting as a business associate, experienced an external system breach (hacking) from January 28, 2023, to January 31, 2023. The incident was discovered on January 30, 2023. The breach affected 44 Maine residents, who were notified via written communication on March 27, 2023. The company offered one year of complimentary credit monitoring and identity theft restoration services to those affected.

Maine clockDiscovered Jan 30, 2023 → Filed with AG Mar 27, 202356d ⏱ ME AG >30d8 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ AG web formThe discovery date came from the AG web-form field, which is systematically later than the detection date stated in the letter. Treat the clock as indicative.

Incident timeline

undetected · 2 days
discovery → filing · 8 weeks / 56 days

Jan 28, 2023

Begins

Jan 30, 2023

Discovered

Mar 27, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

2 wks faster

This filing is one of 4 filings about the same incident.View merged incident
Part of FORTRA, LLC supply-chain incident (2023) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 2 states

View merged incident ↗
Maine State AGMar 27 · first · this page

Pattern: first filing Mar 27 (ME), last Apr 5 (CA) — a 9-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.