INDIANAPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Gibson Insurance Agency, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jul 28, 2016

Filed

Oct 14, 2016

To disclose

11 weeks

Affected

7,242

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Gibson Insurance Agency, Inc. →

Gibson Insurance Agency, Inc. reported to HHS on 2016-10-14 a Theft affecting 7242 individuals. Breached information located on Laptop. An employee's laptop was stolen from her car on July 28, 2016, potentially containing demographic and health insurance information. The covered entity notified HHS, individuals, and media, investigated, sanctioned the employee, and implemented safeguards including encryption, security management systems, complex passwords, and automatic logoff.

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HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified11 weeks 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.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 11 weeks / 78 days

Jul 28, 2016

Begins

Jul 28, 2016

Discovered

Oct 14, 2016

Filed

vs. sector median

1 wks faster

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_3bbabe8f218f0fd32016-10-14Verified
Montana State AGbd_5cc94d05fc3ce36d2016-10-14Candidate

Name: Gibson
norm: gibson
Domain: gibson.com
Industry: Business Associate

Name: Gibson Insurance Agency, Inc.
norm: gibson insurance agency
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Jul 28, 2016
Breach occurred: Jul 28, 2016
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 7,242nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Theft
Where the data lived: Laptop
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: Internal
Third party: via Gibson Insurance Agency, Inc.business associate

During the incident: The employee reported the theft to local law enforcement
The covered entity (CE), Gibson Insurance Agency, Inc., provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media
The CE investigated the breach
Sanctioned the employee involved
Implemented policies regarding the use of portable workstations outside the office
Retrained employees
Changes made: The CE improved safeguards by encrypting all computers
Deploying a security management system to all mobile devices
Mandating the use of complex passwords
Instituting automatic logoff
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 11 weeks(78 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: Jul 28, 2016
→ Notified: not extracted
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: Jul 28, 2016 → Notified: not extracted	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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Massachusetts State AGOct 14 · first

Montana State AGOct 14 · first

HHS OCROct 14 · first · 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: Oct 14, 2016
Raw hash: 37fef962e63fa6eb285b0188adc7973b51448354d45d5da6e416b52af5fb8176

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityGibson

Victim entityGibson Insurance Agency, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Jul 28, 2016

Stated responseThe employee reported the theft to local law enforcement

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing