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Georgia Department of Community Health

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Severity

Critical

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 2, 2015

To disclose

—

Affected

355,127

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

95%

Full breach record for Georgia Department of Community Health →2 incidents on file

Georgia Department of Community Health (a Health Plan) reported to HHS OCR on 2015-03-02 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 355,127 individuals. AMGP Georgia Managed Care Company, a business associate, stored the CE's ePHI on servers of its parent, Anthem, Inc. Anthem suffered a series of cyberattacks exposing nearly 79 million people's ePHI. Exposed data included names, SSNs, medical ID numbers, addresses, dates of birth, email addresses, and employment information. OCR reviewed the BA agreement and separately reviewed Anthem, resulting in a monetary settlement and corrective action plan. Breached information located on Network Server.

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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

Mar 2, 2015

Filed

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Corroborated · see linked filings

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

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Part of ANTHEM INSURANCE COMPANIES, INC. supply-chain incident (2015) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

HHS OCRbd_2b036411260563e12015-03-02Candidate

Name: Georgia Department of Community Health
norm: georgia department of community health
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: Georgia Department of Community Health
norm: georgia department of community health
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 355,127nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)EmploymentMetadata
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Health planBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: OCR reviewed the BA agreement and determined it appeared to comply with HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules.OCR opened a separate review of Anthem, Inc., resulting in a monetary settlement and corrective action plan.
Third party: via Anthem, Inc. (cyberattackers targeting Anthem infrastructure)

During the incident: OCR reviewed the business associate agreement between Georgia Department of Community Health and AMGP Georgia Managed Care Company.
OCR opened a separate compliance review of Anthem, Inc.
Changes made: Anthem agreed to pay a monetary settlement to HHS OCR.
Anthem undertook a robust corrective action plan to comply with HIPAA Rules.
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.

Filing propagation · 2 filings

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HHS OCRMar 2 · first

HHS OCRMar 2 · 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: Mar 2, 2015
Raw hash: cb16b33993b0088cf0459e63e51c21be17c5cae54576de9448f01a0255c8dc42

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityGeorgia Department of Community Health

Victim entityGeorgia Department of Community Health

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseOCR reviewed the business associate agreement between Georgia Department of Community Health and AMGP Georgia Managed Care Company.

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing