CONNECTICUTSocial EngineeringHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial accountCriticalResolved

AETNA INC.

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Severity

Critical

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 22, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

484,157

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for AETNA INC. →38 incidents on file

Aetna ACE (Health Plan, CT) reported to HHS on 2020-12-22 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 484,157 individuals. Multiple employees of its business associate experienced a phishing attack compromising ePHI via Email. Exposed data included names, addresses, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, diagnoses, and financial/treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, and revised its BA-related policies and procedures.

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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

Dec 22, 2020

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

This filing is one of 4 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Indiana State AGbd_f568824e733a54422020-12-11 · +11dVerified
Oregon State AGbd_608d960c607dad732020-12-10 · +12dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_982d9b94c84861a82020-12-10 · +12dVerified

Name: AETNA INC.
norm: aetna
Domain: aetna.com
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: AETNA INC.
norm: aetna
Domain: aetna.com
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 484,157nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial account
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Health planBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 PhishingT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified HHS
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified affected individuals
Notified media
Revised policies and procedures relating to business associates
Changes made: Revised policies and procedures relating to business associates
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.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

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Oregon State AGDec 10 · first

Massachusetts State AGDec 10 · first

Indiana State AG+1d

HHS OCR+12d · this page

Pattern: first filing Dec 10 (OR), last Dec 22 (CT) — a 12-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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: Dec 22, 2020
Raw hash: 1a650acdc46c4eda6438b78b6c3138dacfbe803626577075a7496f99e6a370f0

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityAETNA INC.

Victim entityAETNA INC.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified affected individuals

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing