IOWAAccidentalHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASICHighResolved
Polk County Health Services, Inc
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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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,071 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/breach/breach_report.jsf
DisclosureLens renders the full SEC/HHS filing inline below from the originating regulator’s public record (§4.5 fair report privilege).
- Filed at
- Apr 12, 2018
- Raw hash
- 6492f0460ea5838f6a9218b8477d05f1102274f88242f23c8df6e1f9595c3101
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Polk County Health Services, Incnorm: polk county health
- Industry
- Insurance — Health
Victim entity
- Name
- Polk County Health Services, Incnorm: polk county health
- Industry
- Insurance — Health
- Industry
- Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 1,071
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1048 Exfiltration Over Alternative Protocol
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- Notified HHS OCR
- Initial access
- insider_action
Compliance
- Compliance flags
- HHS notified
- Discovery-date grounding
- no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status HIPAA Discovered: not extracted→ Notified: not extracted— regulatory submission HHS notified
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.