FEDERALPhysicalHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHigh
Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island
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Full breach record for Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island →Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island reported to HHS on 2010-04-21 a theft affecting 12,000 individuals. The breach occurred when the company donated a file cabinet containing paper records with protected health information (PHI) before it was properly cleaned out. The compromised data included names, addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, and Medicare ID numbers. In response, the company offered one year of free credit monitoring, retrained staff, and revised its policies.
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.Confirmed12,000 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 21, 2010
- Raw hash
- b1b17004897a7998181e740e4135eda4da5b2294a6207c8fdb61bf7505b43917
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Islandnorm: blue cross blue shield of rhode island
- Domain
- bcbsri.com
- Industry
- Insurance — Health
Victim entity
- Name
- Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Islandnorm: blue cross blue shield of rhode island
- Domain
- bcbsri.com
- Industry
- Insurance — Health
- Industry
- Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 12,000
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- Internal
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.