TEXASAccidentalHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MetadataLowResolved

Celanese Medical PLan

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Aug 19, 2022

To disclose

—

Affected

704

Confidence

98%

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Celanese Medical Plan (TX, Health Plan) reported to HHS on 2022-08-19 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 704 individuals. An employee erroneously sent an email containing PHI without using the blind copy (BCC) function, exposing names and email addresses. Breached information located in Email. The CE notified HHS and affected individuals, and implemented additional technical safeguards in response.

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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

Aug 19, 2022

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.Confirmed704 affectedView incident

Name: Celanese Medical PLan
norm: celanese medical plan
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: Celanese Medical PLan
norm: celanese medical plan
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 704nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)Metadata
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
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Notified affected individuals
Implemented additional technical safeguards
Changes made: Additional technical safeguards implemented to prevent recurrence
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: Aug 19, 2022
Raw hash: f22384291109c0bcaf2b0337903cf5c77508321e0dc1f7d7f1c458c1a5eb06a2

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Reporting entityCelanese Medical PLan

Victim entityCelanese Medical PLan

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified affected individuals

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing