NORTH CAROLINAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Medium

Abb Inc. Active Employee Group Benefit Plan

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

May 13, 2026

To disclose

—

Affected

6,877

Confidence

75%

Full breach record for Abb Inc. Active Employee Group Benefit Plan →

The covered entity (CE), ABB Inc. Active Employee Group Benefit Plan, reported that its business associate (BA), BlueAdvantage Administrators of Arkansas, impermissibly disclosed the protected health information (PHI) of 6,877 plan members due to a mailing error. The disclosed information included member names, ID numbers, and addresses. To prevent future incidents, the BA reviewed and updated its procedures, retrained staff, and issued new member cards and ID numbers.

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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

May 13, 2026

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.Confirmed6,877 affectedView incident

Name: Abb Inc. Active Employee Group Benefit Plan
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Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: Abb Inc. Active Employee Group Benefit Plan
norm: abb inc active employee group benefit plan
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 6,877nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Health planBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Partner
Regulator citations: Notified HHSOCR determined that the CE had a business associate agreement in place
Third party: via BlueAdvantage Administrators of Arkansas

Changes made: Reviewed and made changes to its procedures
Retrained staff
Cancelled the member cards and ID numbers affected by the mailing, and issued new cards and ID numbers
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: May 13, 2026
Raw hash: 2c3308eedb538c8c85a516a2666d947d33feabd738f4b30525febcaaaec75534

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Reporting entityAbb Inc. Active Employee Group Benefit Plan

Victim entityAbb Inc. Active Employee Group Benefit Plan

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseReviewed and made changes to its procedures

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing