FEDERALHackingHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareStolen CredentialsBrute ForceCustomer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedTargetedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMediumResolved
HUMANA INC.
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Full breach record for HUMANA INC. →Humana Inc (Health Plan, KY) reported to HHS OCR on 2017-04-18 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 3,831 individuals. Servers were compromised by a cyber-attack involving automated credential-stuffing/brute-force attempts from both foreign and domestic IP addresses. PHI exposed included names, dates of birth, claims information, medications prescribed, other treatment information, and health diagnoses/conditions. Remediation included IP blocking, password resets, CAPTCHA, bot managers, and MFA. Breached information located on Network Server. Case # HU17001CC.
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.Confirmed3,831 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
- Apr 18, 2017
- Raw hash
- 144f4c7e4e1debd93125eb7e87e64e84682e8760e4ddcb60a9cecb533db716a0
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- HUMANA INC.norm: humana
- Domain
- humana.com
- Industry
- Insurance — Health
Victim entity
- Name
- HUMANA INC.norm: humana
- Domain
- humana.com
- Industry
- Insurance — Health
- Industry
- Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 3,831
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1078 Valid AccountsT1110 Brute ForceT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- OCR provided technical assistance regarding media notice and obtained assurances that corrective actions were implemented.
- Initial access
- valid_credentials
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.