IDAHOAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial accountMediumContained

IEC Group, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Aug 24, 2023

To disclose

—

Affected

74,884

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for IEC Group, Inc. →2 incidents on file

IEC Group, Inc. dba AmeriBen reported to HHS on 2023-08-24 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 74,884 individuals. Breached information located on Email. An employee inadvertently sent an email containing PHI (names, financial info, treatment info) to patients. The covered entity notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, and retrained the employee.

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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

Aug 24, 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 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Washington State AGbd_6702ba3ceec6e04b2023-08-10 · +14dVerified

Name: IEC Group, Inc.
norm: iec group
Domain: ameriben.com
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: IEC Group, Inc.
norm: iec group
Domain: ameriben.com
Also named: IEC Group, Inc.dba oflegal entity
AmeriBendba oftrade name
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 74,884nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial account
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Internal
Third party: via IEC Group dba AmeriBenbusiness associate

During the incident: Sanctioned and retrained the employee responsible for the breach
Implemented new administrative safeguards
Notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Changes made: Implemented new administrative safeguards
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 · 2 filings · 2 states

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Washington State AGAug 10 · first

HHS OCR+14d · this page

Pattern: first filing Aug 10 (WA), last Aug 24 (ID) — a 14-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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: Aug 24, 2023
Raw hash: 92611931ab3b36443a41fa74ac4a8acc4a02cb501d7adda021e04af01c5d4f7b

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityIEC Group, Inc.

Victim entityIEC Group, Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseSanctioned and retrained the employee responsible for the breach

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing