CONNECTICUTSocial EngineeringHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcarePhishingBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

AETNA INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Sep 22, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

1,011

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for AETNA INC. →38 incidents on file

Aetna ACE (Health Plan, CT) reported to HHS on 2021-09-22 a Hacking/IT Incident (email phishing) affecting 1,011 individuals. An employee of the covered entity's business associate was the victim of an email phishing scheme. PHI involved included names, dates of birth, diagnoses/conditions, and other treatment information. Breached information was located in Email. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media.

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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

Sep 22, 2021

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.Confirmed1,011 affectedView incident

Name: AETNA INC.
norm: aetna
Domain: aetna.com
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: AETNA INC.
norm: aetna
Domain: aetna.com
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,011nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Health planBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 Phishing
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified HHS
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified affected individuals
Notified media
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: Sep 22, 2021
Raw hash: 6dce2041a493a4ccd1f759847dc12938f5a49c306bb4f32e5455e128b75fb3dc

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Reporting entityAETNA INC.

Victim entityAETNA INC.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified affected individuals

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing