Health Data Breach Tracker/CT

Health Plan · Archived

Group Life Hospital and Medical Program

3,000 individuals · submitted February 29, 2016

About this report

Anthem, Inc., a business associate (BA) of Group Life Hospital and Medical Program, a health plan offered by Kaman Corporation, the covered entity (CE), experienced a series of cyberattacks which exposed the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of almost 79 million people, affecting 3,000 individuals who received health insurance from the CE and were affected by this breach. The ePHI involved included names, social security numbers, medical identification numbers, addresses, dates of birth, email addresses, and employment information. OCR opened a separate review of Anthem, which resulted in Anthem agreeing to pay a monetary settlement and undertaking a robust corrective action plan to comply with the HIPAA Rules.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Group Life Hospital and Medical Program
State
CT
Entity type
Health Plan
Individuals affected
3,000
Submission date
February 29, 2016
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Network Server
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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