MINNESOTAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)LowResolved

Target Corporation Health Plan

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 5, 2016

To disclose

—

Affected

719

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Target Corporation Health Plan →

Target Corporation Health Plan reported to HHS on 2016-04-05 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 719 individuals. Breached information located on Paper/Films. A technician incorrectly changed a printer setting resulting in errors on printed explanation of benefit (EOB) letters sent by a subcontractor (Kaiser Permanente Insurance Company). The protected health information (PHI) involved included names, addresses, and financial data.

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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

Apr 5, 2016

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed719 affectedView incident

Name: Target Corporation Health Plan
norm: target corporation health plan
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Target Corporation Health Plan
norm: target corporation health plan
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 719nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1530 Data from Cloud Storage
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: OCR’s investigation resulted in the subcontractor BA improving safeguards
Third party: via Kaiser Permanente Insurance Companybusiness associate

During the incident: The BA provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media
The subcontractor BA updated its procedures to include additional oversight and additional print testing during printer updates or maintenance
Changes made: The subcontractor BA improving safeguards in the printing of PHI for the covered entity's health plan
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: Apr 5, 2016
Raw hash: 77675fe6042ecc1cabe8ffbb324b43e7a18ccf1d2147c6ac1e3f17bf8436d582

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Reporting entityTarget Corporation Health Plan

Victim entityTarget Corporation Health Plan

IncidentMisconfiguration

Stated responseThe BA provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing