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Idaho Power

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Aug 10, 2010

To disclose

—

Affected

5,500

Confidence

68%

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Mercer Health & Benefits reported to HHS on 2010-08-10 a Loss affecting 5500 individuals. Breached information located on Other. A backup tape containing PHI (names, addresses, DOB, SSN) for Idaho Power Group Health Plan was lost in transit. Affected individuals were notified and offered credit protection. Remediation included encrypting tapes and using a secure transport vendor.

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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 10, 2010

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed5,500 affectedView incident

Name: Mercer Health
norm: mercer health
Domain: mercer-health.com
Industry: Business Associate

Name: Idaho Power
norm: idaho power
Domain: idahopower.com
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 5,500nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Loss
Where the data lived: Other
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Reported to HHS
Third party: via Mercer Health & Benefitsbusiness associate

During the incident: Notified all possible affected individuals
Offered free credit protection services
Changes made: Stores backup tapes through a third party vendor who offers secure transport services
Mercer's Boise office now encrypts backup tapes
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: Aug 10, 2010
Raw hash: 8a8db42a2975d1d11009eba0ebf4a4b8f5b37691267c6cfcdd2660a3f8b8a05e

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Reporting entityMercer Health

Victim entityIdaho Power

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified all possible affected individuals

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing