TEXASAccidentalHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Marketing Clique

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Feb 20, 2015

To disclose

—

Affected

8,700

Confidence

97%

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Marketing Clique, a business associate (BA) of Lone Star Circle of Care (the covered entity/CE), reported to HHS on 2015-02-20 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 8,700 individuals. The breach resulted from a backup file inadvertently uploaded by the BA onto the CE's website, exposing PHI of patients who used the site for appointments, prescription refills, or other inquiries. The CE secured and removed the file, disabled the mobile app, and terminated the BA agreement. OCR confirmed the BA was no longer in business and provided technical assistance on risk analysis and breach notification. Breached information located in: Other.

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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

Feb 20, 2015

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.Confirmed8,700 affectedView incident

Name: Marketing Clique
norm: marketing clique
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: Marketing Clique
norm: marketing clique
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 8,700nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Other
Covered-entity type: Health planBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Partner
Regulator citations: OCR investigation conductedOCR provided technical assistance on risk analysis and risk management planOCR provided technical assistance on breach notification to individualsCE provided OCR with documentation of corrective actions taken
Third party: via Marketing Cliquebusiness associate

During the incident: Breach notification provided to HHS
Breach notification provided to the media
Breach notification provided to affected individuals
Changes made: CE secured the data contained in the backup file
CE removed the appointment and refill request pages from the website
CE disabled the mobile application
CE terminated business associate agreement with Marketing Clique
OCR provided technical assistance regarding risk analysis, risk management plan, and breach notification
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: Feb 20, 2015
Raw hash: be98fc64b1c7e32d4f30ec5090210456b240f7e52bfcb373193edc437c3be955

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Reporting entityMarketing Clique

Victim entityMarketing Clique

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseBreach notification provided to HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing