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COLORADOPhysicalHealthcareGovernmentHealthcareLossBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Department of Personnel and Administration

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jun 29, 2011

To disclose

—

Affected

3,589

Confidence

95%
Full breach record for Department of Personnel and Administration →

The Colorado Department of Personnel and Administration (a Business Associate) reported to HHS on 2011-06-29 a Theft/loss event affecting 3,589 individuals. The BA mailed a CD containing ePHI via inter-office mail to another city; the CD was lost en route. PHI included state Medicaid and children's health plan data. Breached information located on Other portable media (CD). The CE completed a risk analysis, notified affected individuals, HHS, and media, and required encryption of all future ePHI shipments. OCR obtained assurances of corrective action.

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

Jun 29, 2011

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.Confirmed3,589 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.