DCAccidentalHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareMisconfigurationBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMediumResolved
CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield
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Full breach record for CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield →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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2,189 affectedView incident
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
- Feb 16, 2024
- Raw hash
- 861ded58ead271a42193bf2fc9915e8ba43cbb656669a1229342234a8ee4e5a6
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shieldnorm: carefirst blue cross blue shield
- Domain
- carefirst.com
- Industry
- Business Associate
Victim entity
- Name
- CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shieldnorm: carefirst blue cross blue shield
- Domain
- carefirst.com
- Industry
- Business Associate
- Industry
- Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 2,189
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR notified
- Initial access
- insider_action
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.