INDIANAAccidentalHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMediumResolved
Anthem Inc.
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Full breach record for Anthem Inc. →Anthem BCBS of GA reported to HHS OCR on 2013-08-13 a Theft (impermissible disclosure) affecting 5,497 individuals. A CE sales representative used an incorrect group number from an erroneous membership/data file, causing inadvertent disclosure of PHI including demographic information to a business associate. The BA subsequently certified destruction of the PHI. OCR confirmed the CE implemented corrective action including enhanced quality control procedures and counseling of the involved representative.
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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed5,497 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- 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
- Aug 13, 2013
- Raw hash
- 56c6eb0c53cff0c9d1535420f8948157c88c21d8f897fd5f9e3a358854c8d219
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Anthem Inc.norm: anthem
- Domain
- anthem.com
Victim entity
- Name
- Anthem Inc.norm: anthem
- Domain
- anthem.com
- Industry
- Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 5,497
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Misconfiguration
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented corrective action
- Initial access
- insider_action
Compliance
- 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
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.