CALIFORNIAHackingHealthcareHealthcareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumContained

Brightline

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

May 26, 2023

To disclose

—

Affected

8,432

Linked

26 filings

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Brightline →

Brightline, Inc. reported to HHS on 2023-05-26 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 8432 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server. The business associate's third-party provider was the victim of a cyber-attack. PHI involved included names, dates of birth, addresses, member/group IDs, and gender. Brightline provided credit monitoring and implemented additional safeguards.

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Leak gap clock⏱ Leak >30d

⚠ 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 26, 2023

Filed

—

Corroborated · see linked filings

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

This filing is one of 26 about the same incident.View merged incident

Part of FORTRA, LLC supply-chain incident (2023) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

A leak claim by cl0p about this victim predates this filing by 71 days.View originating leak claim

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (10) · sorted by filing gap

California State AGbd_bf99fc2a4df4a34d2023-05-17 · +9dVerified
California State AGbd_d59ed55c5ee4770a2023-05-12 · +14dVerified
California State AGbd_0868c3f9cf5006022023-05-10 · +16dVerified
HHS OCRbd_4c63e3855981b1222023-05-10 · +16dVerified

Show 6 more filings ↓up to 39d gap

Maine State AGbd_b69375073a6e96d42023-05-10 · +16dVerified
Oregon State AGbd_163db05cc4cb89582023-05-02 · +24dVerified by operator
California State AGbd_a1b16fb406ed3ce92023-04-21 · +35dVerified
HHS OCRbd_a0176e4142b0a3702023-04-20 · +36dVerified
Vermont State AGbd_5ea7d3fbb2a5464a2023-04-19 · +37dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_ab681e087aaa2ef42023-04-17 · +39dVerified

Showing first 10 of 25 linked disclosures.

Name: Brightline, Inc.
norm: brightline
Domain: gobrightline.com
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Brightline
norm: brightline
Domain: hellobrightline.com
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 8,432nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified HHSOCR provided technical assistance regarding the HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules
Third party: via Brightline, Inc.business associate

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Provided substitute notice
Provided complimentary credit monitoring services
Implemented additional security and technical safeguards
Received technical assistance from OCR regarding HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules
Changes made: Implemented additional security and technical safeguards
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: Leak >30dHHS 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.

Filing propagation · 11 filings · 5 states

View merged incident ↗

New Hampshire State AGApr 17 · first

Vermont State AG+2d

HHS OCR+3d

California State AG+4d

Oregon State AG+15d

California State AG+23d

HHS OCR+23d

Maine State AG+23d

California State AG+25d

California State AG+30d

HHS OCR+39d · this page

Pattern: first filing Apr 17 (NH), last May 26 (CA) — a 39-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

Cascade drawn from the first 10 linked disclosures of 25 — the full spread may be wider.

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 26, 2023
Raw hash: 106419c28b6b6b3dbc304c15bd64e504cd69ec709c635a468147e85ec7f2336f

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (10) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityBrightline, Inc.

Victim entityBrightline

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceLeak >30d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing