ILLINOISAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)LowResolved

Health Care Service Corp

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 23, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

574

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Health Care Service Corp →76 incidents on file

Health Care Service Corporation reported to HHS on 2020-03-23 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 574 individuals. Breached information located on Email. An employee inadvertently emailed ePHI (names, diagnoses, medications) to an unauthorized individual. The CE implemented administrative safeguards and retrained employees.

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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

Mar 23, 2020

Filed

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

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed574 affectedView incident

Name: Health Care Service Corp
norm: health care service
Domain: hcsc.com
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: Health Care Service Corp
norm: health care service
Domain: hcsc.com
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 574nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1530 Data from Cloud Storage Object
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified HHSOCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted

During the incident: Notified HHS and the affected individuals
Implemented additional administrative safeguards
Retrained employees on the requirement to safeguard sensitive data
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative safeguards
Retrained employees on the requirement to safeguard sensitive data
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.

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: Mar 23, 2020
Raw hash: 70d263d234d4a9bf8bceac4a4cb65712dc914f2ff8f29681c09182f56ccb96f0

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Reporting entityHealth Care Service Corp

Victim entityHealth Care Service Corp

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS and the affected individuals

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing