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 Feb. 2, 2018.
- Organization as reported
- Triple-S Advantage, Inc.
- Entity type as reported
- Health Plan
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Paper/Films
- Submission date
- Feb. 2, 2018
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13926, row:5065)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Subsequent to Triple-S Management entering into a Resolution Agreement/Corrective Action Plan (RA/CAP) with OCR on November 20, 2015, its subsidiary, Triple-S Advantage, reported a mass mailing error to certain providers that caused correspondences to be printed with incorrect addresses, disclosing the protected health information of 36,305 beneficiaries. Triple-S Advantage provided breach notification to HHS, the media, and the affected individuals, including any required substitute notice to the affected individuals. Following the breach, Triple-S Advantage provided OCR with written assurances that it investigated the incident and took several steps to address and mitigate the breach incident pursuant to the RA/CAP.