CALIFORNIAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

HEALTH NET, INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jul 2, 2013

To disclose

—

Affected

8,331

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for HEALTH NET, INC. →8 incidents on file

Health Net, Inc. reported to HHS on 2013-07-02 a breach involving the erroneous mailing of identification cards for 8,331 members to their former addresses due to a contractor's system error. Breached information located on Paper/Films. The types of protected health information (PHI) included demographic information, such as members’ names. Following the breach, Health Net corrected the programming error and implemented a new program to ensure address syncing accuracy.

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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

Jul 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.Confirmed8,331 affectedView incident

Name: HEALTH NET, INC.
norm: health net
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: HEALTH NET, INC.
norm: health net
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 8,331nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Other
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: provided breach notification to HHSOCR provided technical assistance regarding security risk analysis and determined that HN must conduct an enterprise-wide security risk analysis

During the incident: Provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Uncovered and corrected the programming error
Developed and implemented a new program to help ensure that the syncing of beneficiary addresses between specific enrollment files and HN’s master address file is accurate
Changes made: Developed and implemented a new program to help ensure that the syncing of beneficiary addresses between specific enrollment files and HN’s master address file is accurate
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: Jul 2, 2013
Raw hash: ab8a9052d9aa1c099e7a6f303fb3e78fc7dbc55411bff2c11e4484473157a1cf

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Reporting entityHEALTH NET, INC.

Victim entityHEALTH NET, INC.

IncidentMisconfiguration

Stated responseProvided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing