Premera Blue Cross, including Academe, Inc. (formerly known as LifeWise Health Plan of Arizona, Inc.), Connexion Insurance Solutions, Inc., Life Wise Health Plan of Washington, Life Wise Health Plan of Oregon, Inc., LifeWise Assurance Company, Vivacity data breach (2015) · DisclosureLens
Premera Blue Cross, including Academe, Inc. (formerly known as LifeWise Health Plan of Arizona, Inc.), Connexion Insurance Solutions, Inc., Life Wise Health Plan of Washington, Life Wise Health Plan of Oregon, Inc., LifeWise Assurance Company, Vivacity
Confirmed breach. Intrusion Jan 1, 2014–Jan 16, 2015, discovered Jan 16, 2015 — the first regulatory filing landed 60 days later. 10,400,000 individuals reported across the linked filings.
Discovery variance · Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delay — no leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster; needs two dated filings.
State AGConfirmedLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedhigh sensitivity
Affected (total reported)
10,400,000
Data types
4
Identity (basic) · Government ID · Health (basic)
Jurisdictions
2
CA SC
Linked filings
2
all State AG
Sensitive data
identity_government
Timeline
Earliest sighting first · deep chronology in Litigation Timeline
Breach window
Jan 1, 2014 → Jan 16, 2015
When the intrusion reportedly occurred, per the linked filings
Premera Blue Cross filed a data breach notification with the California Attorney General. The filing includes sample notices for adults, deceased individuals, and minors. The specific details of the breach (dates, counts, attack vector) are contained within the attached PDF letters, which are not fully parsed in this extraction. Premera is a healthcare insurer.
🌴South Carolina State AGMost recentlinked via multistate filing link · 100%
Premera Blue Cross (f/k/a Life Wise Health Plan of Arizona, Inc.) disclosed a 2015 cybersecurity incident affecting approximately 10.4 million individuals nationwide. The breach involved unauthorized access via stolen credentials, resulting in the exfiltration of PHI, PII, and financial data. Premera paid $6.85M to settle HIPAA violations and engaged forensic investigators and the FBI.
Affected (this filing): 10,400,000
About this clustering
DisclosureLens links filings into incidents through layered matchers: deterministic rules (same source document, multistate filings of one breach, tight-window same-victim pairs), a weighted-similarity scorer for cross-source candidates, and an operator review queue for everything uncertain. Each link records its own method and confidence — shown per filing in the timeline below. The system defaults to NOT merging when uncertain, because a false merge (collapsing two unrelated breaches) is more harmful than a false split (showing related filings separately); uncertain pairs route to human review instead of auto-merging. Filing summaries shown in the timeline are AI-generated extracts — verify each against its linked source.