ARIZONAHackingHealthcareHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMedium

Merchants Benefit Administration

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 30, 2024

To disclose

—

Affected

767

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

50%

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Merchants Benefit Administration reported to HHS on 2024-04-30 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 767 individuals. The incident involved an email phishing attack that exposed names, Social Security numbers, and financial information. The breached information was located on Email. In response, the entity improved its safeguards and received technical assistance from OCR.

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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

Apr 30, 2024

Filed

—

Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_8e37c3e311a9adfe2024-05-09 · +9dVerified

Name: Merchants Benefit Administration
norm: merchants benefit administration
Domain: mbaadmin.com
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: Merchants Benefit Administration
norm: merchants benefit administration
Domain: mbaadmin.com
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 767nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: OCR provided technical assistance to the CE.

Changes made: Improved its technical and administrative safeguards.
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 · 2 filings · 2 states

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HHS OCRApr 30 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+9d

Pattern: first filing Apr 30 (AZ), last May 9 (MA) — a 9-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: Apr 30, 2024
Raw hash: f66f25718aaa5002b14a2e5a9db427c67b50759d4ac1f7007937d1bc4a43439d

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityMerchants Benefit Administration

Victim entityMerchants Benefit Administration

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseImproved its technical and administrative safeguards.

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing