ILLINOISHackingHealthcareHealthcareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Government IDIdentity (basic)EmploymentHighContained

CAREER EDUCATION CORPORATION

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 19, 2015

To disclose

—

Affected

2,743

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for CAREER EDUCATION CORPORATION →2 incidents on file

Career Education Corporation reported to HHS on 2015-03-19 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 2743 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, a business associate, stored ePHI on Anthem, Inc. servers. Anthem experienced cyberattacks exposing names, SSNs, medical IDs, addresses, DOBs, emails, and employment info.

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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

Mar 19, 2015

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.

Part of ANTHEM INSURANCE COMPANIES, INC. supply-chain incident (2015) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2,743 affectedView incident

Name: CAREER EDUCATION CORPORATION
norm: career education
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: CAREER EDUCATION CORPORATION
norm: career education
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 2,743nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Government IDIdentity (basic)Employment
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: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified HHS OCROCR opened a separate review of Anthem
Third party: via Anthem, Inc.business associate

During the incident: OCR reviewed the BA agreement and determined that it appeared to comply with the requirements of the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules
OCR opened a separate review of Anthem, which resulted in Anthem agreeing to pay a monetary settlement and undertaking a robust corrective action plan to comply with the HIPAA Rules
Changes made: Anthem undertaking a robust corrective action plan to comply with the HIPAA Rules
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: Mar 19, 2015
Raw hash: 19c85f58aef4a3c2554020b9e06e530c95223ac85d6bf9fb32caf1a7229517c6

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Reporting entityCAREER EDUCATION CORPORATION

Victim entityCAREER EDUCATION CORPORATION

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseOCR reviewed the BA agreement and determined that it appeared to comply with the requirements of the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing