NCAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMediumResolved
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina
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Full breach record for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina →Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina reported to HHS on 2015-09-11 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 1530 individuals. Breached information located on Paper/Films. Business associate EDM Americas accidentally sent invoices containing other members' PHI (names, addresses, account numbers, coverage dates, premiums) to members.
HIPAA clockDiscovered Aug 14, 2015 → Notified Sep 11, 201528d ✓ HHS notified28 days discovery → filing
⚠ AG web formThe discovery date came from the AG web-form field, which is systematically later than the detection date stated in the letter. Treat the clock as indicative.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,530 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
- Sep 11, 2015
- Raw hash
- 8b6677ef32245d3c6d81c9f3719dc2d4d2a8c46fab3a146c089e5d6370917458
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolinanorm: blue cross and blue shield of north carolina
- Domain
- bcbsnc.com
- Industry
- Insurance — Health
Victim entity
- Name
- Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolinanorm: blue cross and blue shield of north carolina
- Domain
- bcbsnc.com
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Aug 14, 2015
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Sep 11, 2015
- Affected individuals
- 1,530
- Data types
- PHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Misconfiguration
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1530 Data from Cloud Storage
- Regulator citations
- OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions listed above
- Third party
- via EDM Americasbusiness associate
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 28 days(28 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- HHS notified · 28dHIPAA 60-day OK · 28d
- Discovery-date grounding
- AG web formThe discovery date came from the AG web-form field, which is systematically later than the detection date stated in the letter. Treat the clock as indicative.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status HIPAA Discovered: Aug 14, 2015→ Notified: Sep 11, 201528d regulatory submission HHS notified HIPAA Discovered: Aug 14, 2015→ Notified: Sep 11, 201528d 60 days HIPAA 60-day OK
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.