PUERTO RICOMisuseHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcarePrivilege AbuseStolen CredentialsBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryHealth (basic)Identity (basic)HighResolved

Puerto Rico Department of Health - Triple S Management Corp.

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Nov 4, 2010

To disclose

—

Affected

475,000

Confidence

95%

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Puerto Rico DOH reported on behalf of the Puerto Rico Health Insurance Administration (Triple-S Salud / Triple-C) that two former BA employees improperly accessed TSS' IPA database using credentials that were not terminated upon departure. Approximately 400,000 members' names, contract numbers, home addresses, diagnostic codes, and treatment codes were accessed. Network Server was the location of breached information. OCR investigation led to commitments for risk analysis, policy revisions, and staff retraining.

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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

Nov 4, 2010

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed475,000 affectedView incident

Name: Puerto Rico Department of Health - Triple S Management Corp.
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Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: Puerto Rico Department of Health - Triple S Management Corp.
norm: puerto rico department of health triple s management
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 475,000nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Health planBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access· Triple-S Salud (TSS) / Triple-C former staff members
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1530 Data from Cloud Storage
Threat actor: Partner
Regulator citations: OCR investigation conducted; covered entity committed to risk analysis, risk management plan, policy revision, and staff retraining.
Third party: via Triple-S Salud (TSS) / Triple-C former staff members
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Breach notification provided to HHS by Puerto Rico DOH.
Breach notification provided to affected individuals and media by Triple-S Salud (TSS).
OCR investigation initiated.
Changes made: Conduct risk analysis.
Implement risk management plan.
Revise policies and procedures.
Retrain staff.
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: Nov 4, 2010
Raw hash: dbcdbd74515eb73b684dab229b97344696714c0a54a14295f5d2e3179969290d

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Reporting entityPuerto Rico Department of Health - Triple S Management Corp.

Victim entityPuerto Rico Department of Health - Triple S Management Corp.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseBreach notification provided to HHS by Puerto Rico DOH.

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing