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Breach notice filed by CVS Caremark (July 2013)

Organization named: CVS Caremark Provisional: identity as filed, not yet matched to the directory
Type as the source lists it: Theft

What the sources say

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

Posted on the HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) with a submission date of July 2, 2013.

Organization as reported
CVS Caremark, AZ
Entity type as reported
Business Associate
Category as reported
Theft
Location of information as reported
Paper/Films
Submission date
July 2, 2013
Observed by BreachRecords
2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 15378, row:6517)
Archived copy
Held in the private archive (provenance)

Business associate (BA) employees erroneously sent 4,305 health plan members' protected health information (PHI) to other plan members. The PHI involved in the breach included names and prescribed medication(s). The covered entity, Northrop Grumman Retiree Health Plan, provided breach notification to HHS, and the BA, CVS Caremark, provided breach notification to affected individuals and the media. Following the breach, the BA revised its quality control policies for targeted mailings and retrained employees involved in the breach to prevent similar incidents in the future. OCR obtained assurances that the BA implemented the breach notification and policy revisions listed above.

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

Figures, per source

  • 4,305 individuals affected (total reported), as reported by the HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals), source date July 2, 2013, revision observed 2026-10-18.

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Timeline

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  • Submission date at the HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals)
  • Observed by BreachRecords (revision 15378)
  • Approved by a reviewer

Organizations linked by a reviewer

  • CVS Caremark Named as a service provider Provisional: identity as filed, not yet matched to the directory Linked 2026-10-19, method provisional.

Archived evidence

  • 3dbc27dd5742e041cc1e7fe18cc669e2901fbd3b86b7007ed27948ff4d406e1f
    text/csv, 5,530,996 bytes, from the HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals), retrieved 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC. Archived privately · Provenance · Source page

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