NEW JERSEYPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDCriticalResolved

Horizon Healthcare Services Inc.

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Severity

Critical

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 3, 2014

To disclose

—

Affected

839,711

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Horizon Healthcare Services Inc. →4 incidents on file

Horizon Healthcare Services, Inc. (doing business as Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey) reported to HHS on 2014-01-03 a Theft affecting 839,711 individuals. Breached information located on Laptop. The incident involved the theft of two unencrypted laptops containing PHI, including names, dates of birth, insurance IDs, SSNs, and clinical information. The entity conducted a comprehensive inventory, enhanced workstation encryption, disabled removable media export features, improved facility access controls, and retrained its workforce.

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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

Jan 3, 2014

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.Confirmed839,711 affectedView incident

Name: Horizon Healthcare Services Inc.
norm: horizon healthcare
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Horizon Healthcare Services Inc.
norm: horizon healthcare
Also named: Horizon Healthcare Services, Inc.dba oflegal entity
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, and its affiliatesdba oftrade name
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 839,711nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Theft
Where the data lived: Laptop
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: provided breach notifications to HHSOCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted above
Third party: via Horizon Health Care Servicesbusiness associate

During the incident: Conducted a comprehensive inventory of all its computers containing PHI to ensure that they were fully encrypted
Enhanced configuration settings on workstations to encrypt email containing electronic PHI
Disabled features on all devices that permitted exporting of data to removable storage media
Implemented new procedures for information technology purchasing, decision-making and management
Improved facility access controls
Retrained its workforce
Changes made: Conducted a comprehensive inventory of all its computers containing PHI to ensure that they were fully encrypted
Enhanced configuration settings on workstations to encrypt email containing electronic PHI
Disabled features on all devices that permitted exporting of data to removable storage media
Implemented new procedures for information technology purchasing, decision-making and management
Improved facility access controls
Retrained its workforce
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: Jan 3, 2014
Raw hash: a0c3d3811f09f4e1690e70406d09a273b405dff638bd54a374d9ef6f1adf8dce

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Reporting entityHorizon Healthcare Services Inc.

Victim entityHorizon Healthcare Services Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseConducted a comprehensive inventory of all its computers containing PHI to ensure that they were fully encrypted

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing