MisuseHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareData MishandlingCustomer Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)MediumContained

UNITEDHEALTHCARE INSURANCE COMPANY

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Oct 16, 2023

Filed

Dec 8, 2023

To disclose

8 weeks

Affected

3state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for UNITEDHEALTHCARE INSURANCE COMPANY →33 incidents on file

UnitedHealthcare notified Montana residents of a data breach involving unauthorized access to an Equality Health employee's email account. The incident resulted from an insider error where a UHC employee improperly sent member PII (including SSN, DOB, and Medicare info) to Equality Health in September 2020. The unauthorized access occurred in April 2023. UHC is offering credit monitoring and fraud assistance.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 188 days

discovery → filing · 8 weeks / 53 days

Apr 11, 2023

Begins

Oct 16, 2023

Discovered

Dec 8, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

5 wks faster

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_22530873cf52f5cf2023-12-14 · +6dVerified

Name: UNITEDHEALTHCARE INSURANCE COMPANY
norm: unitedhealthcare insurance
Domain: uhc.com

Name: UNITEDHEALTHCARE INSURANCE COMPANY
norm: unitedhealthcare insurance
Domain: uhc.com
Industry: HealthcarellmFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: Oct 16, 2023
Breach occurred: Apr 11, 2023 – Apr 12, 2023
Undetected for: 188 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Oct 16, 2023
Affected individuals: 3state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)
Data elements: Date of birth
Attack vector: Insider
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: Internal
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Secured the affected employee account
Began an investigation
Counseling and retraining the employee responsible for the initial disclosure
Providing access to Credit Monitoring services through Single Bureau Credit Monitoring at no charge
Providing fraud assistance through Cyberscout
Changes made: Counseling and retraining the employee responsible for the initial disclosure
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 8 weeks(53 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Montana State AGDec 8 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+6d

Pattern: first filing Dec 8 (MT), last Dec 14 (MA) — a 6-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/OCP/Consumer-notification-letter-934.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 8, 2023
Raw hash: 942318a58dc67ffac754b74cd380ef8217ba49397534481d0ca37c5735ad414b

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityUNITEDHEALTHCARE INSURANCE COMPANY

Victim entityUNITEDHEALTHCARE INSURANCE COMPANY

Incidentdiscovered Oct 16, 2023

Stated responseSecured the affected employee account

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov