CONNECTICUTSocial EngineeringHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Health (basic)MediumResolved

AETNA INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jul 29, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

1,084

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for AETNA INC. →38 incidents on file

Aetna ACE (Health Plan, CT) reported to HHS OCR on 2020-07-29 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 1,084 individuals. Employees of Aetna ACE's business associate were victims of an email phishing scheme that compromised ePHI, including names, addresses, telephone numbers, diagnoses, health insurance information, and treatment information. Breached information was located in Email. Aetna notified OCR and affected individuals.

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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

Jul 29, 2020

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.Confirmed1,084 affectedView incident

Name: AETNA INC.
norm: aetna
Domain: aetna.com
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: AETNA INC.
norm: aetna
Domain: aetna.com
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,084nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Health (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 PhishingT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified OCR
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified OCR
Notified affected individuals
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: Jul 29, 2020
Raw hash: 7e9bd5d437193988cafc9c7b2e846772be560e0bf176761cb622abd4373bda87

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Reporting entityAETNA INC.

Victim entityAETNA INC.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified OCR

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing