MARYLANDAccidentalHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDMediumResolved

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) Medical and Dental Insurance Plan

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Oct 6, 2010

To disclose

—

Affected

692

Confidence

96%

Full breach record for Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) Medical and Dental Insurance Plan →

A benefits staff member at JHU/APL Medical and Dental Insurance Plan accidentally attached a file containing PHI to an email sent to 85 employees. The email included names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and marital and disability status of approximately 692 individuals. All recipients were notified within 5 days and the email was deleted. Following an OCR investigation, the covered entity updated policies requiring peer review of bulk benefit emails, mandated PHI email encryption, took personnel action against the responsible employee, and committed to additional HIPAA and encryption training. Location of breached information: Other.

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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

Oct 6, 2010

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

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Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed692 affectedView incident

Name: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) Medical and Dental Insurance Plan
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Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) Medical and Dental Insurance Plan
norm: johns hopkins university applied physics laboratory jhu apl medical and dental insurance plan
Industry: Insurance — Health
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Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 692nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Other
Where the data lived: Other
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Unknown
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: HHS OCR investigation conducted; covered entity updated policies and procedures following OCR investigation
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: All 85 email recipients notified within 5 days
Email containing PHI was deleted
Policy instituted to encrypt emails containing PHI before sending from benefits department
New business process requiring peer review of emails sent to 5 or more staff members with attachments
Personnel action taken with responsible employee
Encryption specialist to train all benefits office staff
Explore automated flagging of communications containing 9-digit numbers (SSNs)
Additional HIPAA training for benefits office staff
Changes made: Email encryption policy for PHI-containing emails
Mandatory peer review for bulk emails with attachments from benefits office
Staff encryption training
Automated flagging capability exploration for sensitive data
HIPAA training refresh
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.

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 6, 2010
Raw hash: 8214d4a0e980cb38f600767b9530aec709bcb2c829f90053d5b494c95c446dc7

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Reporting entityJohns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) Medical and Dental Insurance Plan

Victim entityJohns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) Medical and Dental Insurance Plan

IncidentUnknown

Stated responseAll 85 email recipients notified within 5 days

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing