ILLINOISAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Government IDIdentity (basic)MediumResolved

Plexus Group

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Sep 13, 2012

Filed

Mar 1, 2013

To disclose

24 weeks

Affected

500

Confidence

66%

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Plexus Group reported to HHS on 2013-03-01 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 500 individuals. Breached information located on Other. Prime Therapeutics, a business associate, erroneously submitted a file containing ePHI (names, SSNs, DOBs, addresses) of 500 plan members to IDHFS due to a system error. The file was destroyed by IDHFS and the error was corrected.

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HIPAA clock✗ HHS report late24 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 24 weeks / 169 days

Sep 13, 2012

Begins

Sep 13, 2012

Discovered

Mar 1, 2013

Filed

vs. sector median

+12 wks slower

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed500 affectedView incident

Name: Plexus Group
norm: plexus group
Industry: Business Associate

Name: Plexus Group
norm: plexus group
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Sep 13, 2012
Breach occurred: Sep 13, 2012
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 500nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Government IDIdentity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Other
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1530 Data from Cloud Storage Object
Threat actor: Internal
Third party: via Prime Therapeuticsbusiness associate

During the incident: Obtained confirmation from IDHFS that it destroyed the file and that it did not further disclose the file
Corrected the system error
Implemented changes to the file generation process to prevent the same error from recurring
Changes made: Corrected the system error
Implemented changes to the file generation process to prevent the same error from recurring
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 24 weeks(169 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: HHS report lateHHS notified
Discovery-date grounding: occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
HIPAA
Discovered: Sep 13, 2012
→ Notified: not extracted
— 60 days HHS report late
HIPAA
Discovered: Sep 13, 2012
→ Notified: not extracted
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: Sep 13, 2012 → Notified: not extracted	—	60 days	HHS report late
HIPAA	Discovered: Sep 13, 2012 → 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: Mar 1, 2013
Raw hash: 6e4277cfa989b4d6483fdd7aec18a08b243a14ef1676bc21cdd005027b04b33a

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Reporting entityPlexus Group

Victim entityPlexus Group

Incidentdiscovered Sep 13, 2012

Stated responseObtained confirmation from IDHFS that it destroyed the file and that it did not further disclose the file

ComplianceHHS report late

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing