GAMisuseHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareMisuse OtherData MishandlingBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMediumResolved
TSYS Employee Health Plan
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Full breach record for TSYS Employee Health Plan →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.
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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed5,232 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- 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
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- TSYS Employee Health Plannorm: tsys employee health plan
- Industry
- Insurance — Health
Victim entity
- Name
- TSYS Employee Health Plannorm: tsys employee health plan
- Industry
- Insurance — Health
- Industry
- Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 5,232
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- 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
Compliance
- 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
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.