WASHINGTONHackingHealthcareHealthcareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDCriticalContained

Community Health Plan of Washington

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Severity

Critical

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 21, 2016

To disclose

—

Affected

381,504

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Community Health Plan of Washington →

Community Health Plan of Washington reported to HHS on 2016-12-21 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 381,504 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server, Other. Business associate Transactions Application Group, Inc. failed to properly secure a port on an FTP server, resulting in unauthorized access to ePHI including names, addresses, DOBs, SSNs, and claims coding.

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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 21, 2016

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 6 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Washington State AGbd_0a35fce30888272b2016-12-21Candidate
Massachusetts State AGbd_d2a27a544a1af8442016-12-25 · +4dVerified
Montana State AGbd_8eedda41b0dc71892016-12-29 · +8dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_73ea96eb0f43c5892017-01-03 · +13dVerified

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HHS OCRbd_e74e7ea642691fa12017-01-03 · +13dVerified

Name: Community Health Plan of Washington
norm: community health plan of washington
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: Community Health Plan of Washington
norm: community health plan of washington
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 381,504nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Network serverOther
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified HHSOCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions
Third party: via Transactions Application Group, Inc.business associate
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Provided breach notification to the affected parties, the media, and HHS
Offered one year of free credit and identity theft monitoring
Implemented additional technical safeguards
Changes made: Implemented additional technical safeguards
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 · 6 filings · 4 states

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Washington State AGDec 21 · first

HHS OCRDec 21 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+4d

Montana State AG+8d

New Hampshire State AG+13d

HHS OCR+13d

Pattern: first filing Dec 21 (WA), last Jan 3 (WA) — a 13-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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 21, 2016
Raw hash: 3a5b9f9373c6d5a95c9c42ca217bfbed8ad088096cdf06d1833455e45fbf1f1c

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityCommunity Health Plan of Washington

Victim entityCommunity Health Plan of Washington

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseProvided breach notification to the affected parties, the media, and HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing