NEW YORKAccidentalHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial accountMediumResolved

Independent Health Association, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

May 8, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

7,605

Confidence

96%

Full breach record for Independent Health Association, Inc. →3 incidents on file

Independent Health Association, Inc. (NY Health Plan) reported to HHS OCR on 2019-05-08 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 7,605 individuals. An employee accidentally emailed documents containing ePHI — including names, diagnoses, claims data, clinical information, treatment information, and financial information — to the wrong recipient via email. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, sanctioned the employee, retrained staff, and implemented new administrative safeguards. OCR obtained assurances that corrective actions were implemented.

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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

May 8, 2019

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed7,605 affectedView incident

Name: Independent Health Association, Inc.
norm: independent health
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: Independent Health Association, Inc.
norm: independent health
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 7,605nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)Financial account
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: HHS OCR notified; OCR obtained assurances that corrective actions were implemented.
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media.
Implemented new administrative safeguards.
Sanctioned the responsible employee.
Retrained staff.
Changes made: Implemented new administrative safeguards.
Sanctioned the responsible employee.
Staff retraining conducted.
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.

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: May 8, 2019
Raw hash: 9425c78573d35b43934b655b58533e81c11131ffcc8ac026f629218c4651f66e

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Reporting entityIndependent Health Association, Inc.

Victim entityIndependent Health Association, Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS, affected individuals, and the media.

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing