MOMisuseHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcarePrivilege AbuseEmbezzlementCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTIDENTITY_BASICHEALTH_BASICMediumResolved

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City

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In February 2014, an internal employee of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City (Health Plan, MO) exploited access to payment-by-phone systems to steal credit card information from 2,546 members making premium payments. Two members reported unauthorized charges, prompting investigation. The employee had a prior felony identity theft conviction missed due to an inaccurate background check by contractor Verifications Inc. The CE terminated the employee, replaced the background check vendor, notified HHS, individuals, and media, and reported to the FBI and local law enforcement. OCR confirmed corrective actions. Location of breached information: Other.

HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified10 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2,546 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: Apr 11, 2014
Raw hash: a0312277c97fa8a2518e698411341c0b4c3d5dde46ab27519fd532410f0f9949

Source filing

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Reporting entity

Name: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City
norm: blue cross and blue shield of kansas city
Industry: Insurance — Health

Victim entity

Name: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City
norm: blue cross and blue shield of kansas city
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm

Incident

Discovered: Feb 1, 2014
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 2,546
Data types: FINANCIAL_ACCOUNTIDENTITY_BASICHEALTH_BASIC
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: InternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified HHS OCRReported to FBIReported to local law enforcement
Initial access: insider_action

Compliance

Time to disclose: 10 weeks(69 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: HHS notified
Discovery-date grounding: occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
HIPAA
Discovered: Feb 1, 2014
→ Notified: not extracted
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: Feb 1, 2014 → Notified: not extracted	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Extraction provenance

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.