GEORGIAMisuseHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareMisuse OtherData MishandlingBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

TSYS Employee Health Plan

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Oct 2, 2013

To disclose

—

Affected

5,232

Confidence

94%

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TSYS Employee Health Plan (GA) reported to HHS on 2013-10-02 a Theft/misappropriation breach affecting 5,232 beneficiaries. An employee of business associate Paragon Benefits, Inc. misappropriated a digital file containing PHI stored via email. The CE terminated its BA contract and obtained assurances of additional security measures. OCR confirmed an effective BA agreement was in place. Affected individuals received identity theft protection and credit monitoring.

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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

Oct 2, 2013

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.Confirmed5,232 affectedView incident

Name: TSYS Employee Health Plan
norm: tsys employee health plan
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: TSYS Employee Health Plan
norm: tsys employee health plan
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 5,232nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Theft
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Health planBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access· Paragon Benefits, Inc. (employee)
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: Partner
Regulator citations: OCR determined that the CE and BA had an effective BA agreement in place at the time of the breach.OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions listed above.
Third party: via Paragon Benefits, Inc.business associate
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Timely breach notification sent to HHS, affected individuals, and media.
Substitute notification posted on CE's website.
Changes made: CE terminated its contract with Paragon Benefits, Inc. as of December 31, 2012.
CE obtained assurances from the BA that additional security measures have been implemented.
CE provided affected individuals with identity theft protection and credit monitoring.
CE provided tax forms, FTC contact information, and credit freeze instructions to affected individuals.
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: Oct 2, 2013
Raw hash: 13ec30524c3b2e6697545b99a9b94f298651f86890f5e7ba3d8f148e74ee1c30

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Reporting entityTSYS Employee Health Plan

Victim entityTSYS Employee Health Plan

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseTimely breach notification sent to HHS, affected individuals, and media.

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing