FLORIDAAccidentalHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)HighResolved

Sunshine State Health Plan

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Jul 14, 2016

To disclose

—

Affected

1,479

Confidence

98%

Full breach record for Sunshine State Health Plan →3 incidents on file

Sunshine State Health Plan, Inc. (FL) reported to HHS on 2016-07-14 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 1,479 individuals. A case manager emailed a daily inpatient census report to an incorrect email address, exposing PHI including member names, addresses, dates of birth, plan and eligibility information, hospitalization dates, Medicaid and Medicare ID numbers, diagnoses, and procedures. The CE sanctioned the employee, revised its email encryption policies, and OCR obtained assurances of corrective action.

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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 14, 2016

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.Confirmed1,479 affectedView incident

Name: Sunshine State Health Plan
norm: sunshine state health plan
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: Sunshine State Health Plan
norm: sunshine state health plan
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,479nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented corrective actions.
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Breach notification provided to HHS, affected individuals, and media.
Substitute notice posted on website.
Offered free credit monitoring and identity theft restoration services.
Sanctioned the involved employee for policy violation.
Changes made: Revised encryption and decryption policy and procedures to require all employees to encrypt emails containing PHI and sensitive data.
Revised confidentiality and release of PHI policy.
Revised mitigation policies and procedures.
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 14, 2016
Raw hash: 0cb042c994cbd627341cfbd9775182d68702cab65a7c83be671c8da8af5dcb71

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Reporting entitySunshine State Health Plan

Victim entitySunshine State Health Plan

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseBreach notification provided to HHS, affected individuals, and media.

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing