Premera Blue Cross
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Full breach record for Premera Blue Cross →Premera Blue Cross (WA/AK) reported to HHS OCR on 2015-03-17 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 11,000,000 individuals, with breached information located on Network Servers. Attackers used a phishing email in May 2014 to install malware enabling unauthorized access for ~9 months until January 2015 (advanced persistent threat). Exposed PHI included names, addresses, dates of birth, email addresses, SSNs, bank account information, and health plan clinical data for 10.4M+ individuals. PBC settled with OCR for $6.85M — the second-largest HIPAA resolution in OCR history — and agreed to a corrective action plan with two years of monitoring.
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_13935cd688d3ab10Hawaii State AGfiled 2015-03-24(7d gap)Verified
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
- Mar 17, 2015
- Raw hash
- fe29481693d4efae62a57447192bfd79836496c86999b33fde1107b5dc14a4e4
Source filing
Reporting entity
- Name
- Premera Blue Crossnorm: premera blue cross
- Domain
- premera.com
- Industry
- Insurance — Health
Victim entity
- Name
- Premera Blue Crossnorm: premera blue cross
- Domain
- premera.com
- Industry
- Insurance — Health
- Industry
- Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm
Incident
- Discovered
- Jan 1, 2015
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 11,000,000
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1566 PhishingT1566.001 Spearphishing AttachmentT1078 Valid AccountsT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR investigation — $6.85 million settlementCorrective Action Plan with two years of monitoring
- Initial access
- phishing_attachment
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 11 weeks(75 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- HHS notified
- Discovery-date grounding
- unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status HIPAA Discovered: Jan 1, 2015→ Notified: not extracted— regulatory submission HHS notified
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.