Clustered 2 filings across 2 jurisdictions · filed Aug 14, 2023. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →
incident inc_378850a44ad244fb · merge_method deterministic · confidence 100%
Discovered → first regulatory filing
Time between earliest and latest filing
Not recorded for this incident
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.
Identity (basic) · Government ID
ME NY
HHS OCR · State AG
Earliest sighting first · deep chronology in Litigation Timeline
May 30, 2023 → Jun 2, 2023
When the intrusion reportedly occurred, per the linked filings
Jun 21, 2023
Reported by MAINE AG filing
VNS Health Health Plans reported a data breach that occurred at its HIPAA business associate, Cognizant/TMG. The breach was described as an external system breach (hacking) and resulted in the compromise of names and Social Security Numbers.
Affected (this filing): 1
VNS Health Health Plans reported to HHS on 2023-08-14 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 103,775 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server. A business associate's software application exposed PHI including names, addresses, SSNs, phone numbers, and emails. The CE notified HHS, individuals, and media.
Affected (this filing): 103,775
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.