CTSocial EngineeringHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTCriticalResolved
AETNA INC.
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Full breach record for AETNA INC. →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.
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.
This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_608d960c607dad73Oregon State AGfiled 2020-12-10(12d gap)Verified
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 22, 2020
- Raw hash
- 1a650acdc46c4eda6438b78b6c3138dacfbe803626577075a7496f99e6a370f0
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- AETNA INC.norm: aetna
- Domain
- aetna.com
- Industry
- Insurance — Health
Victim entity
- Name
- AETNA INC.norm: aetna
- Domain
- aetna.com
- Industry
- Insurance — Health
- Industry
- Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 484,157
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1566 PhishingT1078 Valid Accounts
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- Notified HHS
- Initial access
- phishing_link
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.