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IOWAAccidentalHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)HighResolved

Polk County Health Services, Inc

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 12, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

1,071

Confidence

95%
Full breach record for Polk County Health Services, Inc →

Polk County Health Services, Inc (IA, Health Plan) reported to HHS on 2018-04-12 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 1,071 individuals. Breached information located on Email. An employee inadvertently shared PHI — including names, addresses, and Social Security numbers — with unauthorized entities. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, provided credit monitoring, retrained workforce, and implemented additional safeguards.

HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified
⚠ no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.
⚠ No discovery dateThe OCR public portal omits the discovery date, so the 60-day notification clock cannot be evaluated from this source — only that the filing was submitted.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Apr 12, 2018

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,071 affectedView incident

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.