NEW YORKAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHighResolved

MetroPlus Health Plan, Inc.

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Sep 1, 2017

To disclose

—

Affected

15,212

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for MetroPlus Health Plan, Inc. →3 incidents on file

MetroPlus Health Plan, Inc. reported to HHS on 2017-09-01 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 15212 individuals. Breached information located on Email. An employee emailed PHI spreadsheets to personal email addresses.

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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

Sep 1, 2017

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed15,212 affectedView incident

Name: MetroPlus Health Plan, Inc.
norm: metroplus health plan
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: MetroPlus Health Plan, Inc.
norm: metroplus health plan
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 15,212nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1530 Data from Cloud Storage
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: OCR’s investigationextensive technical assistance was provided

During the incident: Sanctioned the employee
Ensured that the ePHI was deleted from the personal email addresses and the device used by the employee’s family member
Reminded all workforce members not to use personal email accounts to conduct the CE’s business
Documented the impermissible disclosure of its members’ ePHI for accounting of disclosure purposes
Provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Changes made: Perform a thorough and accurate enterprise wide risk analysis
Establish a risk management plan
Regularly review records of information system activity
Implement security measures to guard against unauthorized access to ePHI transmitted over an electronic communications network
Provide periodic security training to workforce members on safeguarding ePHI in transmission
Provide periodic security training on policies and procedures regarding breach notification
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: Sep 1, 2017
Raw hash: e90d325df246ad335525d5a228575b184e27db2e99533a78f9bcda9b1262d928

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Reporting entityMetroPlus Health Plan, Inc.

Victim entityMetroPlus Health Plan, Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseSanctioned the employee

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing