NEW YORKAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Government IDIdentity (basic)HighResolved

Emblem Health - GHI

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Nov 22, 2016

To disclose

—

Affected

81,122

Confidence

69%

Emblem Health - GHI reported to HHS on 2016-11-22 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 81122 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server, Other, Paper/Films. A business associate mailed letters containing PHI (names, addresses, SSNs) to members.

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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

Nov 22, 2016

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

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

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed81,122 affectedView incident

Name: Emblem Health - GHI
norm: emblem health
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: Emblem Health - GHI
norm: emblem health
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 81,122nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Government IDIdentity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Network serverOtherPaper / films
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1530 Data from Cloud Storage Object
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified HHSConsent judgment reached with the Attorney General of the State of New York

During the incident: Provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Provided free credit monitoring to the affected individuals
Revised its mailing procedures
Sanctioned the employees whose action contributed to the breach
Trained employees and vendors on information security, privacy and quality assurance for member mailings
Changes made: Transition to a new IT operating platform
Take additional corrective actions pursuant to a consent judgment reached by the CE with the Attorney General of the State of New York
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.

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: Nov 22, 2016
Raw hash: 6cd19f9b7e9bbd34a632f83b8323cc404a71595cfd629ce3053a13e4db533351

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Reporting entityEmblem Health - GHI

Victim entityEmblem Health - GHI

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseProvided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing