ARIZONAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

CVS CAREMARK

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jul 2, 2013

To disclose

—

Affected

4,305

Confidence

50%

Full breach record for CVS CAREMARK →8 incidents on file

CVS Caremark reported to HHS on 2013-07-02 a data breach affecting 4,305 individuals. The business associate for Northrop Grumman Retiree Health Plan erroneously sent paper documents containing members' names and prescribed medications to other members. In response, the company revised its quality control policies and retrained employees.

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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

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Jul 2, 2013

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.Confirmed4,305 affectedView incident

Name: CVS CAREMARK
norm: cvs caremark
Industry: Business Associate

Name: CVS CAREMARK
norm: cvs caremark
Industry: Business Associate
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 4,305nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Theft
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Regulator citations: OCR obtained assurances that the BA implemented the breach notification and policy revisions listed above.

Changes made: Revised its quality control policies for targeted mailings
Retrained employees involved in the breach
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 2, 2013
Raw hash: d09cb79b21c803ef7c6bb4a5ca15e3e056551598c16b6cb297256a01793febaf

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Reporting entityCVS CAREMARK

Victim entityCVS CAREMARK

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseRevised its quality control policies for targeted mailings

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing