GAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTMediumResolved
AFLAC INCORPORATED
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Full breach record for AFLAC INCORPORATED →Aflac reported to HHS on 2016-05-20 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 930 individuals. Breached information located on Paper/Films. Due to a vendor error, Aflac erroneously sent correspondence containing PHI (names, policy numbers, coverage types, premiums, and 6 SSNs) to the wrong customers. Aflac retrained employees, revised policies, sanctioned the responsible manager, terminated vendor contracts, and notified HHS and affected individuals.
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.Confirmed930 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
- May 20, 2016
- Raw hash
- 50c4d92bb1df90be5963341d2ef16414e380cdaf5bb328f12f48aea823367791
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- AFLAC INCORPORATEDnorm: aflac
- Domain
- aflac.com
- Industry
- Insurance — Health
Victim entity
- Name
- AFLAC INCORPORATEDnorm: aflac
- Domain
- aflac.com
- Industry
- Insurance — Health
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 930
- Data types
- PHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENT
- Attack vector
- Misconfiguration
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1530 Data from Cloud Storage
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- provided breach notification to HHSOCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions listed above
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.