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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIAAccidentalHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareMisconfigurationBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield Community Health Plan – District of Columbia

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Feb 16, 2024

To disclose

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Affected

2,189

Confidence

98%

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield Community Health Plan – District of Columbia reported to HHS on 2024-02-16 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 2,189 individuals. An employee inadvertently made PHI viewable via the Internet from a Network Server. PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, claims information, diagnoses, conditions, and other treatment details. The entity notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, and implemented enhanced encryption, stronger passwords, and additional technical safeguards.

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

Feb 16, 2024

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.Confirmed2,189 affectedView incident

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.