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Social EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedPHIGovernment IDIdentity (basic)Health (basic)Financial accountFinancial credentialsMediumContained

Highmark Inc

bd_b2b69efe74984e65 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 15, 2022

Filed

Feb 10, 2023

To disclose

8 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

10 filings

Confidence

66%
Full breach record for Highmark Inc8 incidents on file

Highmark, Inc. disclosed a cybersecurity incident occurring between December 13-15, 2022, where an employee clicked a malicious phishing link, compromising their email account. The threat actor accessed emails containing Protected Health Information (PHI) and PII of Highmark members, including names, SSNs, member IDs, claims data, and financial account numbers. Highmark shut down the mailbox, reset passwords, and implemented network blocking. Affected individuals were offered 24 months of Experian IdentityWorks.

Incident timeline

undetected · 2 days
discovery → filing · 8 weeks / 57 days

Dec 13, 2022

Begins

Dec 15, 2022

Discovered

Feb 10, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

This filing is one of 10 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (9) · sorted by filing gap

Show 5 more filingsup to 136d gap

Filing propagation · 10 filings · 8 states

View merged incident ↗

Pattern: first filing Feb 3 (CA), last Jun 26 (NH) — a 143-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.