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Breach notice filed by Flexible Benefit Service Corporation (February 2018)

Organization named: Flexible Benefit Service Corporation 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 OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) with a submission date of Feb. 16, 2018.

Organization as reported
Flexible Benefit Service Corporation, IL
Entity type as reported
Business Associate
Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information as reported
Email
Submission date
Feb. 16, 2018
Observed by BreachRecords
2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13918, row:5057)
Archived copy
Held in the private archive (provenance)

Flexible Benefit Service Corporation, the covered entity (CE), reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing attack. This breach affected 5,232 individuals. The protected health information (PHI) involved included names, dates of birth, addresses, Social Security numbers, drivers’ license information, claims information, diagnoses/conditions, and financial information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. The CE also offered theft protection and credit monitoring services to all affected individuals. As a result of this breach, the CE implemented additional technical safeguards to better protect its PHI and retrained its employees on how to detect email phishing schemes. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted above.

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

Figures, per source

  • 5,123 individuals affected (total reported), as reported by the HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals), source date Feb. 16, 2018, 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 13918)
  • Approved by a reviewer

Organizations linked by a reviewer

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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