NEW YORKPhysicalHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareLossBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTMediumResolved
BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York
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Full breach record for BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York →BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York (acting as a Business Associate) reported to HHS on 2013-01-22 a Theft/Loss incident affecting 725 individuals. The BA mailed monthly premium invoices containing PHI (names, member ID numbers, SSNs) that were never received by the covered entity. Breached information was located on Paper/Films. The BA contacted the U.S. Post Office, notified affected individuals, and revised invoice procedures to remove sensitive identifiers and send invoices via secure email. OCR verified a proper BA agreement was in place.
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.Confirmed725 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
- Jan 22, 2013
- Raw hash
- 6613ec668d7129ce00bcfe20abe7200dec4bc8cc7d3ba156c789e18080420b95
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- BlueCross BlueShield of Western New Yorknorm: bluecross blueshield of western new york
- Industry
- Business Associate
Victim entity
- Name
- BlueCross BlueShield of Western New Yorknorm: bluecross blueshield of western new york
- Industry
- Business Associate
- Industry
- Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 725
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
- Threat actor
- Partner
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR breach notification filed; OCR verified proper BA agreement in place
- Third party
- via Blue Cross Blue Shieldbusiness associate
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.