MINNESOTASocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedMulti-Stage ChainPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHighContained

South Country Health Alliance

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 31, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

66,874

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for South Country Health Alliance →2 incidents on file

South Country Health Alliance reported to HHS on 2020-12-31 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 66874 individuals. Breached information located on Email. An employee was phished, compromising PHI including names, SSNs, and health data.

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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

Dec 31, 2020

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

This filing is one of 6 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_36c5cca26316281f2020-12-30 · +1dVerified
Indiana State AGbd_9127282b4322a5022020-12-30 · +1dVerified
Maine State AGbd_94d19799f61e98092020-12-30 · +1dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_dba0b9c9a16599422020-12-30 · +1dVerified

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Massachusetts State AGbd_7d14f1778476df152021-01-05 · +5dVerified

Name: South Country Health Alliance
norm: south country health alliance
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: South Country Health Alliance
norm: south country health alliance
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 66,874nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified HHS
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Provided substitute notice
Provided complimentary credit monitoring services
Established a call center for questions or concerns
Implemented additional administrative, technical and security safeguards
Retrained staff
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative, technical and security safeguards
Retrained staff
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.

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 6 states

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Montana State AGDec 30 · first

Indiana State AGDec 30 · first

Maine State AGDec 30 · first

New Hampshire State AGDec 30 · first

HHS OCR+1d · this page

Massachusetts State AG+6d

Pattern: first filing Dec 30 (MT), last Jan 5 (MA) — a 6-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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: Dec 31, 2020
Raw hash: 93ea3cb9634d9241e1ca7e2e1862bdbaa2392f999380ca1a8f03c319f044186c

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySouth Country Health Alliance

Victim entitySouth Country Health Alliance

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing