NCSocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASICHighResolved
ABB Optical Group
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Full breach record for ABB Optical Group →ABB, Inc. (NC) reported to HHS on 2017-09-11 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 28,012 individuals. On August 25, 2017, four employees of ABB, Inc.'s health plan were victims of an email phishing scheme, potentially exposing names, dates of birth, addresses, Social Security numbers, and insurance member ID numbers of 28,017 individuals. The CE strengthened its email security measures and technical policies. OCR obtained assurances that corrective actions were implemented. Breached information was located on Email systems.
HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified17 days discovery → filing
⚠ occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed28,012 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
- Sep 11, 2017
- Raw hash
- 8c5622cf25a8e70b8527cc879cd972a64d81694d85f8e1de5cd02350a1e73e73
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- ABB Optical Groupnorm: abb optical
- Domain
- abboptical.com
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- ABB Optical Groupnorm: abb optical
- Domain
- abboptical.com
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Aug 25, 2017
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 28,012
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1566 PhishingT1078 Valid Accounts
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR breach notification submitted 2017-09-11OCR obtained assurances that corrective actions were implemented
- Initial access
- phishing_link
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 17 days(17 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- HHS notified
- Discovery-date grounding
- occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status HIPAA Discovered: Aug 25, 2017→ Notified: not extracted— regulatory submission HHS notified
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.