KENTUCKYSocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial accountMediumResolved

HealthFirst Bluegrass

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Aug 21, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

971

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for HealthFirst Bluegrass →4 incidents on file

HealthFirst Bluegrass (KY) reported to HHS on 2020-08-21 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 971 individuals. An employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme that exposed ePHI including names, addresses, dates of birth, driver's license numbers, Social Security numbers, claims information, financial information, diagnoses, lab results, and medications. Breached information located in Email. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and media, offered credit monitoring, sanctioned the responsible employee, and implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards. OCR obtained assurances of corrective action.

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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

Aug 21, 2020

Filed

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

This filing is one of 2 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Indiana State AGbd_ae0a9644855030e52020-08-21Verified

Name: HealthFirst Bluegrass
norm: healthfirst bluegrass
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: HealthFirst Bluegrass
norm: healthfirst bluegrass
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 971nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial account
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 PhishingT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: HHS OCR notified; OCR obtained assurances that corrective actions were implemented
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS, affected individuals, and media
Posted substitute notice on website
Offered complimentary credit monitoring services to all affected individuals
Sanctioned the responsible employee
Implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards
Changes made: Employee sanctions applied
Additional administrative safeguards implemented
Additional technical safeguards implemented
Credit monitoring offered to affected individuals
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 · 2 filings · 2 states

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Indiana State AGAug 21 · first

HHS OCRAug 21 · first · 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: Aug 21, 2020
Raw hash: 7296f83a1fa7f6197724135d75b12b9365e200de47adfcb6f3253dff5fbef815

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityHealthFirst Bluegrass

Victim entityHealthFirst Bluegrass

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS, affected individuals, and media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing