FEDERALAccidentalHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICHEALTH_BASICMINORMedium
Affinity Health Plan, Inc.
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Full breach record for Affinity Health Plan, Inc. →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.
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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed721 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- 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
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Affinity Health Plan, Inc.norm: affinity health plan
- Industry
- Insurance — Health
Victim entity
- Name
- Affinity Health Plan, Inc.norm: affinity health plan
- Industry
- Insurance — Health
- Industry
- Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 721
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICHEALTH_BASICMINOR
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- Notified HHSOCR investigation
Compliance
- 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
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.