FLORIDAMisuseHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareKnowledge AbuseMisuse OtherBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial accountMediumResolved

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Aug 30, 2017

Filed

Oct 27, 2017

To disclose

8 weeks

Affected

939

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, Inc. →6 incidents on file

Florida Blue (FL Health Plan) reported to HHS on 2017-10-27 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 939 individuals. Breached information was on Paper/Films. On August 30, 2017, employees of business associate Alliance & Associates Financial Services, Inc. impermissibly took PHI (names, DOBs, addresses, SSNs, medical history, banking/payment info) to a new employer. The CE recovered the PHI, provided credit monitoring, and OCR opened a separate review of the BA.

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HIPAA clock✓ HHS report on time8 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 8 weeks / 58 days

Aug 30, 2017

Discovered

Oct 27, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed939 affectedView incident

Name: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, Inc.
norm: blue cross and blue shield of florida
Domain: floridablue.com
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, Inc.
norm: blue cross and blue shield of florida
Domain: floridablue.com
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: Aug 30, 2017
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 939nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial account
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Health planBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Partner
Regulator citations: HHS OCR breach notification submittedOCR opened a separate review of the business associateOCR obtained assurances of corrective action implementation
Third party: via Alliance & Associates Financial Services, Inc.
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Provided timely breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and media
Provided two years of credit monitoring to affected individuals
Obtained the PHI that was taken impermissibly
Obtained assurances that PHI was not retained by the unauthorized entity
Changes made: Retrieved impermissibly taken PHI
Confirmed destruction/non-retention of PHI by the unauthorized entity
Credit monitoring provided to 939 affected individuals
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 8 weeks(58 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: HHS report on timeHHS notified
Discovery-date grounding: unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
HIPAA
Discovered: Aug 30, 2017
→ Notified: not extracted
— 60 days HHS report on time
HIPAA
Discovered: Aug 30, 2017
→ Notified: not extracted
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: Aug 30, 2017 → Notified: not extracted	—	60 days	HHS report on time
HIPAA	Discovered: Aug 30, 2017 → 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: Oct 27, 2017
Raw hash: 31e3fcb49ed18033e67a1d3c4a2606a7669a433567a9f76e6f9022717dcea4f0

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Reporting entityBlue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, Inc.

Victim entityBlue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Aug 30, 2017

Stated responseProvided timely breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and media

ComplianceHHS report on time

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing