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New Mexico Retiree Health Care Authority

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Oct 2, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

586

Confidence

98%
Full breach record for New Mexico Retiree Health Care Authority →

New Mexico Retiree Health Care Authority (Health Plan, NM) reported to HHS on 2018-10-02 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 586 individuals. On September 27, 2018, the CE mailed summary of benefits packets containing members' names, lists of dependents, and last four digits of SSNs to the wrong address due to human error. Breached information located on Paper/Films. The CE updated HIPAA policies, provided breach notifications, and offered free credit monitoring. OCR obtained assurances of corrective action.

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

Sep 27, 2018

Begins

Oct 2, 2018

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed586 affectedView incident

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.