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Health Plus Amerigroup

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 1, 2013

To disclose

—

Affected

28,187

Confidence

96%
Full breach record for Health Plus Amerigroup →

Health Plus Amerigroup (a business associate) reported to HHS OCR on 2013-03-01 a Theft incident affecting 28,187 individuals. The BA mailed an unencrypted compact disk containing ePHI to the covered entity, The Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center. Breached information located on Other Portable Electronic Device. OCR closed this report and consolidated it into an existing breach report filed by OHP PHSP, Inc. regarding the same issues.

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

Mar 1, 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.Confirmed28,187 affectedView incident

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.