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WISCONSINHackingHealthcareHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDMediumResolved

WEA Insurance Corporation

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 27, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

850

Confidence

50%

WEA Insurance Corporation reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 850 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers. The company provided notice to HHS, affected individuals, and the media, and retrained its workforce on identifying fraudulent emails.

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

Dec 27, 2018

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed850 affectedView incident

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.