NEW YORKSocial EngineeringHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedPHIIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)HighResolved

Nippon Life Insurance Company of America

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 3, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

4,109

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for Nippon Life Insurance Company of America →2 incidents on file

Nippon Life Insurance Company of America (Health Plan, NY) reported to HHS on 2021-12-03 a Hacking/IT Incident (email phishing) affecting 4,109 individuals. An employee was the subject of a phishing scheme that exposed PHI including names, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, and other treatment information. Breached information located on Email.

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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

Dec 3, 2021

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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

California State AGbd_ed473a84afed7e972021-12-03Verified

Name: Nippon Life Insurance Company of America
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Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: Nippon Life Insurance Company of America
norm: nippon life insurance company of america
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 4,109nationwide
Data types: PHIIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 PhishingT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified HHSNotified affected individualsNotified the mediaProvided substitute notice
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its PHI
Retrained its workforce members on the proper methods of identifying fraudulent email communications
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 · 2 states

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California State AGDec 3 · first

HHS OCRDec 3 · 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: Dec 3, 2021
Raw hash: e8f81e7515059de0e3163841bab75c026ab73f8bb038e097c61fbef52fc95a30

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityNippon Life Insurance Company of America

Victim entityNippon Life Insurance Company of America

IncidentPhishing

Stated responseNotified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing