OREGONAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisconfigurationCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)LowContained

KAISER FOUNDATION HEALTH PLAN OF THE NORTHWEST

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Nov 6, 2016

To disclose

—

Affected

544

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for KAISER FOUNDATION HEALTH PLAN OF THE NORTHWEST →3 incidents on file

Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Northwest reported to HHS on 2016-11-06 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 544 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server. A website upgrade resulted in an incorrect caching configuration, saving PHI into browser cache accessible to other visitors. The CE provided notifications and implemented a corrective action plan including staff education and process improvements.

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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

Nov 6, 2016

Filed

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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

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Oregon State AGbd_6d51625fd24a92762016-11-04 · +2dVerified

Name: KAISER FOUNDATION HEALTH PLAN OF THE NORTHWEST
norm: kaiser foundation health plan of the northwest
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: KAISER FOUNDATION HEALTH PLAN OF THE NORTHWEST
norm: kaiser foundation health plan of the northwest
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 544nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1530 Data from Cloud Storage Object
Regulator citations: OCR provided the CE with technical assistance regarding the HIPAA Security Rule including risk analysis and risk management

During the incident: Took action to repair the error
Provided individual and substitute breach notifications
Created a corrective action plan to help mitigate the chances of a misconfiguration error by educating the relevant IT staff, creating new processes, ensuring sign offs and approvals at appropriate points in the process, testing an outcome before going live, and engaged a subject matter expert
Changes made: Created a corrective action plan to help mitigate the chances of a misconfiguration error by educating the relevant IT staff, creating new processes, ensuring sign offs and approvals at appropriate points in the process, testing an outcome before going live, and engaged a subject matter expert
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

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Oregon State AGNov 4 · first

HHS OCR+2d · this page

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: Nov 6, 2016
Raw hash: fee4f47131ba233d6a38b7f7f24ef85b37c039033d69e36b94ca043313e1aad3

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityKAISER FOUNDATION HEALTH PLAN OF THE NORTHWEST

Victim entityKAISER FOUNDATION HEALTH PLAN OF THE NORTHWEST

IncidentMisconfiguration

Stated responseTook action to repair the error

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing