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Breach notice filed by Starmount Life Insurance Company (December 2019)

Organization named: Starmount Life Insurance Company 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 Dec. 9, 2019.

Organization as reported
Starmount Life Insurance Company, LA
Entity type as reported
Health Plan
Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information as reported
Email
Submission date
Dec. 9, 2019
Observed by BreachRecords
2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13097, row:4236)
Archived copy
Held in the private archive (provenance)

Starmount Life Insurance Company, the covered entity (CE), reported that several employees were the victims of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 563 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, financial information, and member identification numbers. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. As a result of the breach, the CE implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards to better protect its ePHI. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.

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

Figures, per source

  • 630 individuals affected (total reported), as reported by the HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals), source date Dec. 9, 2019, 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 13097)
  • Approved by a reviewer

Organizations linked by a reviewer

  • Starmount Life Insurance Company Named as the covered entity 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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