PAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICLowResolved
UnitedHealthcare Community & State
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Full breach record for UnitedHealthcare Community & State →UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of Pennsylvania reported to HHS on 2017-12-27 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 614 individuals. Breached information located on Paper/Films. A third-party subcontractor erroneously mailed letters containing PHI (names, addresses, plan IDs, phone numbers, provider names, and inferred diabetes condition) to 614 members. The CE received 9 reports of receipt, notified all members, and implemented quality review and USPS Return Service safeguards.
HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified8 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed614 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- 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
- Dec 27, 2017
- Raw hash
- 08f6d945786fcc23b21909eb3f47a81092eebb27171b73a1bcca55a2cbb526d3
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of Pennsylvanianorm: unitedhealthcare community plan of pennsylvania
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- UnitedHealthcare Community & Statenorm: unitedhealthcare community state
- Domain
- uhccommunityandstate.com
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Nov 1, 2017
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 614
- Data types
- PHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Misconfiguration
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1530 Data from Cloud Storage
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- Notified HHSOCR reviewed a copy of the relevant signed business associate agreement and the CE’s current risk assessmentOCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions listed above
- Third party
- via United Healthcare Community Planbusiness associate
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 8 weeks(56 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- HHS notified
- Discovery-date grounding
- unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status HIPAA Discovered: Nov 1, 2017→ Notified: not extracted— regulatory submission HHS notified
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.