NEW YORKHackingHealthcareHealthcareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Government IDIdentity (basic)EmploymentHighResolved

Freelancers Insurance Company

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 24, 2015

To disclose

—

Affected

43,068

Confidence

68%

Freelancers Insurance Company reported to HHS on 2015-03-24 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 43068 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server. The breach involved a business associate, Empire HealthChoice Assurance, Inc., which stored ePHI on Anthem, Inc. servers. The ePHI exposed included names, SSNs, medical IDs, addresses, DOBs, emails, and employment info.

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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

Mar 24, 2015

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.Confirmed43,068 affectedView incident

Name: Freelancers Insurance Company
norm: freelancers insurance
Domain: freelancersunion.org
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: Freelancers Insurance Company
norm: freelancers insurance
Domain: freelancersunion.org
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 43,068nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Government IDIdentity (basic)Employment
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing ApplicationT1119 Automated Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: OCR opened a separate review of Anthem
Third party: via Empire HealthChoice Assurance, Inc.business associate

During the incident: OCR reviewed the BA agreement and determined that it appeared to comply with the requirements of the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules
Changes made: Anthem agreed to pay a monetary settlement and undertaking a robust corrective action plan to comply with the HIPAA Rules
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: Mar 24, 2015
Raw hash: e06a8ea447ba32955776f80d5715179c6b4b3b382dc0323db22825515b8ff2fa

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Reporting entityFreelancers Insurance Company

Victim entityFreelancers Insurance Company

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseOCR reviewed the BA agreement and determined that it appeared to comply with the requirements of the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing