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Social EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedPHIGovernment IDIdentity (basic)Health (basic)Financial accountFinancial credentialsMediumContained

Highmark Inc

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 15, 2022

Filed

Feb 15, 2023

To disclose

9 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

10 filings

Confidence

66%
Full breach record for Highmark Inc8 incidents on file

Highmark Health disclosed a cybersecurity incident discovered on December 15, 2022, involving a phishing email sent to an employee. The employee's email account was compromised between December 13 and 15, 2022. The threat actor accessed emails containing Protected Health Information (PHI) of Highmark members. Affected data includes names, SSNs, member IDs, claims/treatment info, financial account numbers, passwords, addresses, DOBs, and phone numbers. Highmark shut down the mailbox, reset passwords, implemented network blocking, and provided 24 months of Experian IdentityWorks.

Incident timeline

undetected · 2 days
discovery → filing · 9 weeks / 62 days

Dec 13, 2022

Begins

Dec 15, 2022

Discovered

Feb 15, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

This filing is one of 10 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (9) · sorted by filing gap

Show 5 more filingsup to 131d gap

Filing propagation · 10 filings · 8 states

View merged incident ↗

Pattern: first filing Feb 3 (CA), last Jun 26 (NH) — a 143-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.