ILLINOISSocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHighContained

Flexible Benefit Service Corporation

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Feb 16, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

5,123

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Flexible Benefit Service Corporation →2 incidents on file

Flexible Benefit Service Corporation reported to HHS on 2018-02-16 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 5,123 individuals. Breached information located on Email. An employee was victim of an email phishing attack exposing PHI, names, DOB, SSN, driver's license, claims, diagnoses, and financial info. CE offered credit monitoring and retrained staff.

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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

Feb 16, 2018

Filed

—

Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_370b189e415ee5b42018-02-14 · +2dCandidate
Massachusetts State AGbd_4a01d7b1f9ddf47f2018-02-14 · +2dVerified

Name: Flexible Benefit Service Corporation
norm: flexible benefit service
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Flexible Benefit Service Corporation
norm: flexible benefit service
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 5,123nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified HHSOCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted above
Third party: via Flexible Benefit Service Corporationbusiness associate
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Offered theft protection and credit monitoring services to all affected individuals
Changes made: Implemented additional technical safeguards to better protect its PHI
Retrained its employees on how to detect email phishing schemes
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 · 3 filings · 3 states

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Montana State AGFeb 14 · first

Massachusetts State AGFeb 14 · first

HHS OCR+2d · this page

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: Feb 16, 2018
Raw hash: 8f861f0a31a3201f55e551b8ad9cc57f417666cf0e19005060c084e9ca684a0b

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityFlexible Benefit Service Corporation

Victim entityFlexible Benefit Service Corporation

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS, affected individuals, and the media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing