HackingStolen CredentialsSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Data ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTPHIHEALTH_BASICMediumContained
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
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Full breach record for Blue Cross Blue Shield Association →Anthem Blue Cross notified California regulators of a breach involving vendor Choice Health. On May 7, 2022, an unauthorized person accessed and downloaded files containing Protected Health Information (PHI) and personal identifiers (SSN, Medicare/Medicaid IDs) of Medi-Cal members. The incident was discovered on August 5, 2022. The vendor enhanced security measures, and Anthem offered two years of Experian IdentityWorks monitoring to affected individuals.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-557701
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Sep 28, 2022
- Raw hash
- d55eb813ba2c51f998acdf42f17431072c72798a9e28b69bf0daf2584b7f9d18
Reporting entity
- Name
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Associationnorm: blue cross blue shield
- Domain
- bcbs.com
Victim entity
- Name
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Associationnorm: blue cross blue shield
- Domain
- bcbs.com
Incident
- Discovered
- Aug 5, 2022
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTPHIHEALTH_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Third-Party / Supply Chain
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1195 Supply Chain Compromise
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- Submitted Breach Notification to California Office of the Attorney General
- Third party
- via Choice Health
- Initial access
- valid_credentials
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 8 weeks(54 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- — (clock not assessable for this source)
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.