SOUTH CAROLINAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICLowResolved
Benefitfocus.com, Inc.
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Full breach record for Benefitfocus.com, Inc. →Benefitfocus.com, Inc. reported to HHS on 2019-07-10 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 827 individuals. Breached information located on Paper/Films. A mail merge error caused letters with PHI (names and insurance eligibility) to be sent to wrong addresses. The CE sanctioned the employee, implemented staff training, and is automating the mailing process.
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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed827 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
- Jul 10, 2019
- Raw hash
- c92d1c94b11a763e7f899914fae97037719f0fd41ebe6cd5162e19b6f79cdceb
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Benefitfocus.com, Inc.norm: benefitfocuscom
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Benefitfocus.com, Inc.norm: benefitfocuscom
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 827
- Data types
- PHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Misconfiguration
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1530 Data from Cloud Storage
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- OCR provided the CE with technical assistance regarding the Breach Notification Ruleprovided additional HIPAA trainingOCR obtained assurances that the CE met its notification requirements
- Third party
- via Benefitfocus.com, Inc.business associate
Compliance
- 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
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.