DisclosureLens
INDIANAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial accountLowContained

LINCOLN NATIONAL CORPORATION

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 30, 2026

To disclose

—

Affected

998

Confidence

68%
Full breach record for LINCOLN NATIONAL CORPORATION →30 incidents on file

Lincoln National Corporation d/b/a/ Lincoln Financial reported to HHS on 2026-01-30 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 998 individuals. Breached information located on Paper/Films. An employee impermissibly mailed PHI of 998 individuals to the wrong recipients. The PHI involved demographic and financial information. The CE notified HHS and the affected individuals. In response to the breach, the CE provided complimentary credit monitoring services to the affected individuals, and implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its PHI.

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

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Jan 30, 2026

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.Confirmed998 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.