ALABAMAMalwareHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareRansomwareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData EncryptedRansom DemandedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumContained

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jul 19, 2022

To disclose

—

Affected

8,702

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama →2 incidents on file

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama (Health Plan, AL) reported to HHS OCR on 2022-07-19 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 8,702 individuals. The covered entity's business associate was the subject of a ransomware attack that encrypted PHI stored on a network server. PHI involved includes names, addresses, email addresses, and health insurance information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, media, local law enforcement, and the FBI, and provided substitute notice. The BA implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards. OCR provided technical assistance on the HIPAA Privacy Rule.

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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

Jul 19, 2022

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.Confirmed8,702 affectedView incident

Name: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama
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Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama
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Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 8,702nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Health planBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: HHS OCR notifiedFBI notifiedLocal law enforcement notifiedOCR provided technical assistance regarding the HIPAA Privacy Rule

During the incident: Notified affected individuals
Notified media
Provided substitute notice
Business associate implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards
Changes made: Business associate implemented additional administrative safeguards
Business associate implemented additional technical safeguards
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: Jul 19, 2022
Raw hash: 9f6f51f8b8ac4e9b38bc055bed40a951ee9abe114c866854322ea7e4ae30f704

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Reporting entityBlue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama

Victim entityBlue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified affected individuals

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing