INDIANAMisuseHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareEmail MisusePrivilege AbuseCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Anthem Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Oct 26, 2016

To disclose

—

Affected

3,525

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for Anthem Inc. →14 incidents on file

An Anthem, Inc. (IN) employee emailed PHI to himself, claiming it was for commission reconciliation purposes. The breach, affecting 3,525 individuals, was submitted to HHS on 2016-10-26. PHI was located in email. The employee resigned and attested to deleting all PHI from personal devices. Anthem retrained its Medicare sales workforce and updated commission statements to limit PHI. OCR obtained written assurances of corrective action implementation.

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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

Oct 26, 2016

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.Confirmed3,525 affectedView incident

Name: Anthem Inc.
norm: anthem
Domain: anthem.com
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: Anthem Inc.
norm: anthem
Domain: anthem.com
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Oct 29, 2016
Affected individuals: 3,525nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: InternalSecondary
Regulator citations: HHS OCR obtained written assurances that corrective actions were implemented
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Breach notification sent to HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Substitute notice posted on CE websites on October 29, 2016 through January 27, 2017
Changes made: Ensured all PHI was deleted from employee's home computer and smartphones
Employee resigned and attested to deletion of all PHI from personal devices
Retrained Medicare sales workforce
Took steps to prevent former employee from working or selling the CE's products
Changed commission statement to reflect only minimum necessary PHI
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: Oct 29, 2016
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: not extracted → Notified: Oct 29, 2016	—	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: Oct 26, 2016
Raw hash: c28eb5779956875052d24924af14addc684ab0eb4d256aa7c70f77710a0c4689

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Reporting entityAnthem Inc.

Victim entityAnthem Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseBreach notification sent to HHS, affected individuals, and the media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing