MASSACHUSETTSHackingHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Financial accountIdentity (basic)MediumContained

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Feb 15, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

1,262

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Inc. →16 incidents on file

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts reported to HHS on 2019-02-15 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 1262 individuals. Breached information located on Email. An employee of business associate Health Equity was targeted by social engineering, leading to phishing emails sent to contacts. PHI including demographic, financial, and clinical data was affected.

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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

Feb 15, 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.Confirmed1,262 affectedView incident

Name: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Inc.
norm: blue cross and blue shield of massachusetts
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Inc.
norm: blue cross and blue shield of massachusetts
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,262nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Financial accountIdentity (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Health planBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: OCR reviewed the BA agreement (BAA) between the CE and BAOCR opened a separate investigation of the BA related to this incident
Third party: via Health Equitybusiness associate
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media
The CE updated the BAA for remediation purposes
Changes made: Updated the BAA for remediation purposes
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: Feb 15, 2019
Raw hash: e3d95300adc7f70125e03422e3234e8f1fbe629dceb384d04d3261e22e8fc4d7

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Reporting entityBlue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Inc.

Victim entityBlue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseThe CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing