WASHINGTONSocial EngineeringHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)HighResolved

Physicians Insurance A Mutual Company

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Jul 19, 2023

To disclose

—

Affected

1,852

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for Physicians Insurance A Mutual Company →2 incidents on file

Physicians Insurance A Mutual Company, a business associate based in WA, reported to HHS on 2023-07-19 a Hacking/IT Incident (email phishing) affecting 1,852 individuals. An employee was the victim of a phishing scheme that compromised PHI including names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, health insurance information, and other treatment information. Breached information was located in Email. The BA notified HHS, affected individuals, and media, offered credit monitoring, and implemented new administrative and technical safeguards.

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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

Jul 19, 2023

Filed

—

Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_13b7cb563c4b22602023-07-19Candidate
Massachusetts State AGbd_203eb49e14f72f1b2023-07-19Verified

Name: Physicians Insurance A Mutual Company
norm: physicians insurance a mutual
Industry: Business Associate

Name: Physicians Insurance A Mutual Company
norm: physicians insurance a mutual
Industry: Business Associate
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,852nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 PhishingT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: HHS OCR breach notification submitted
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Provided complimentary credit monitoring services
Implemented new administrative safeguards
Implemented new technical safeguards
Changes made: Complimentary credit monitoring services offered to affected individuals
New administrative and technical safeguards implemented
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 · 3 filings · 3 states

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Montana State AGJul 19 · first

Massachusetts State AGJul 19 · first

HHS OCRJul 19 · 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: Jul 19, 2023
Raw hash: 5cd13a38eb403753ceb58e1a56bbb1eafefc53cc5b50fb9608a45e65c5e57b1b

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityPhysicians Insurance A Mutual Company

Victim entityPhysicians Insurance A Mutual Company

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS, affected individuals, and the media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing