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Breach notice filed by Centerstone Insurance and Financial Services (d/b/a BenefitMall) (January 2019)

Organization named: Centerstone Insurance and Financial Services (d/b/a BenefitMall) Provisional: identity as filed, not yet matched to the directory
Type as the source lists it: Hacking/IT Incident

What the sources say

HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) Primary notice

Posted on the HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal with a submission date of Jan. 3, 2019.

Organization as reported
Centerstone Insurance and Financial Services (d/b/a BenefitMall), TX
Entity type as reported
Business Associate
Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information as reported
Email
Submission date
Jan. 3, 2019
Observed by BreachRecords
2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13582, row:4721)
Archived copy
Held in the private archive (provenance)

Centerstone Insurance & Financial Services dba BenefitMall, the business associate (BA) of multiple covered entities, reported that on or around October 11, 2018, electronic protected health information (ePHI), had been exfiltrated as a result of an email phishing attack. The breach affected approximately 111,589 individuals and the ePHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, social security numbers, and financial information. All affected individuals were notified as well as the media. As a result of OCR's investigation, the BA implemented new technical safeguards to its e-mail platform, provided targeted re-training to involved workforce members on its policies and procedures related to e-mail security, and provided affected individuals with one year of free credit monitoring services.

The source's own words, from the revision above.

Figures, per source

  • 111,589 individuals affected (total reported), according to the HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal, source date Jan. 3, 2019, revision observed 2026-10-18.

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Timeline

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  • Submission date (HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal)
  • Observed by BreachRecords (revision 13582)
  • Approved by a reviewer

Organizations linked by a reviewer

Archived evidence

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    text/csv, 5,530,996 bytes, retrieved from HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal, 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC. Archived privately · Provenance · Source page

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