FEDERALHackingHealthcareHealthcarePhishingBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTEMPLOYMENTHighResolved
HEALTHEQUITY, INC.
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Full breach record for HEALTHEQUITY, INC. →HealthEquity, Inc. reported to HHS on 2018-06-12 a hacking incident affecting 16,000 individuals. The breach resulted from an email phishing scheme targeting employees. The compromised Protected Health Information (PHI) included names, Social Security numbers, claims information, insurance information, employer information, financial information, and treatment information. In response, the company sanctioned the responsible employee, implemented additional security safeguards, and provided further staff training.
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.
This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_90a307c1c580156aMontana State AGfiled 2018-06-13(1d gap)Candidate
Source provenance
- 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
- Jun 12, 2018
- Raw hash
- c372b578690f42929a9a8166ebd6298a1b7e905588029de2c9c3dd3e543ddea7
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- HEALTHEQUITY, INC.norm: healthequity
- Domain
- healthequity.com
- Industry
- Business Associate
Victim entity
- Name
- HEALTHEQUITY, INC.norm: healthequity
- Domain
- healthequity.com
- Industry
- Business Associate
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 16,000
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTEMPLOYMENT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- Notified HHSOCR provided technical assistanceOCR obtained assurances that the BA implemented the aforementioned corrective actions
- Initial access
- phishing_link
Compliance
- 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
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.