NEW YORKAccidentalHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Health (basic)MinorMedium

Affinity Health Plan, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Sep 14, 2015

To disclose

—

Affected

721

Confidence

75%

Full breach record for Affinity Health Plan, Inc. →3 incidents on file

Affinity Health Plan, Inc. mistakenly sent renewal letters to 497 heads of household and 224 children that contained other members’ names, addresses, identification numbers, and coverage information. In response, the company placed a hold on outgoing bulk mailings, revised its mailing procedures to comply with minimum necessary and quality standards, and retrained all staff on the updated policies. OCR investigated and obtained assurances that the corrective actions were implemented.

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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

Sep 14, 2015

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed721 affectedView incident

Name: Affinity Health Plan, Inc.
norm: affinity health plan
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: Affinity Health Plan, Inc.
norm: affinity health plan
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 721nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Health (basic)Minor
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified HHSOCR investigation

During the incident: Placed a hold on outgoing bulk mailings
Changes made: Reviewed and revised the organization’s mailing procedures to ensure that they comply with minimum necessary standards, and quality standards
Retrained all staff on its updated policies and procedures and on HIPAA safeguards for members’ PHI
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.

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: Sep 14, 2015
Raw hash: fb7d9ff21748472789d415720229b158b2828ef37b2df6540f0442b1939ed422

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Reporting entityAffinity Health Plan, Inc.

Victim entityAffinity Health Plan, Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responsePlaced a hold on outgoing bulk mailings

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing