GEORGIAAccidentalHealthcareFinancial ServicesGovernmentHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)EmploymentMediumResolved

Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Aug 27, 2015

To disclose

—

Affected

800

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority →

Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA), acting on behalf of its self-insured health plan, reported to HHS on 2015-08-27 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 800 individuals. MARTA mailed 785 Voluntary Critical Illness Insurance forms to incorrect employees; correspondence contained PHI including names, addresses, SSNs, and dates of birth. Breached information located on Paper/Films. MARTA notified HHS, affected individuals, and media, and implemented corrective SOPs and staff training. OCR obtained assurances that corrective actions were implemented.

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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

Aug 27, 2015

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed800 affectedView incident

Name: Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority
norm: metropolitan atlanta rapid transit authority
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority
norm: metropolitan atlanta rapid transit authority
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultFinancial ServicesllmGovernmentllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 800nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Employment
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: OCR obtained assurances that MARTA implemented corrective actions
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Conducted breach assessment
Provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Developed standard operating procedure for the Benefits Office for handling employees' PHI
Trained employees on new procedures
New procedures prohibit prepopulation of employee forms with individually identifiable information
New procedures prohibit sending documents containing individually identifiable data to the internal print shop
Changes made: Standard operating procedures developed for Benefits Office
Staff training on PHI handling
Forms will no longer be prepopulated with individually identifiable information
Documents with PII/PHI will not be routed to internal print shop
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: Aug 27, 2015
Raw hash: eeebad63189f132db398d1fab8cba6c15958bbea9c240ca07f9e2cc957285352

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Reporting entityMetropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority

Victim entityMetropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseConducted breach assessment

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing