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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jun 20, 2022

Filed

Jul 20, 2022

To disclose

4 weeks

Affected

2state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

65%
Full breach record for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Inc.16 incidents on file

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts notified Montana residents of a data security incident involving vendor LifeWorks US Inc. A former employee emailed spreadsheets containing names, addresses, SSNs, and pension info to personal email accounts on May 17, 2022. Blue Cross was notified on June 20, 2022. Notices were sent July 20, 2022, offering 24 months of credit monitoring.

Incident timeline

undetected · 34 days
discovery → filing · 4 weeks / 30 days

May 17, 2022

Begins

Jun 20, 2022

Discovered

Jul 20, 2022

Filed

vs. sector median

8 wks faster

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

View merged incident ↗
Maine State AGJul 20 · first
Indiana State AGJul 20 · first
Montana State AGJul 20 · first · this page

Pattern: first filing Jul 20 (ME), last Jul 27 (NH) — a 7-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.