INDIANAMisuseHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareEmail MisusePrivilege AbuseCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMediumResolved
Anthem Inc.
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Full breach record for Anthem Inc. →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.
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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed3,525 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
- Oct 26, 2016
- Raw hash
- c28eb5779956875052d24924af14addc684ab0eb4d256aa7c70f77710a0c4689
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Anthem Inc.norm: anthem
- Domain
- anthem.com
- Industry
- Insurance — Health
Victim entity
- Name
- Anthem Inc.norm: anthem
- Domain
- anthem.com
- Industry
- Insurance — Health
- Industry
- Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Oct 29, 2016
- Affected individuals
- 3,525
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- InternalSecondary
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR obtained written assurances that corrective actions were implemented
- Initial access
- insider_action
Compliance
- 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
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.