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%

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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.

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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 filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed3,589 affectedView incident

Name: Department of Personnel and Administration
norm: department of personnel and administration
Industry: Business Associate

Name: Department of Personnel and Administration
norm: department of personnel and administration
Industry: Business Associate
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultGovernmentllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 3,589nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Theft
Where the data lived: Other
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: Partner
Regulator citations: HHS OCR notified; OCR obtained assurances that corrective action was implemented

During the incident: Risk analysis completed immediately following breach
Risk management plan developed
Breach notification provided to affected individuals, HHS, and the media
Substitute notification posted on entity website
Changes made: Required all future ePHI to be encrypted prior to shipment
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

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

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: not extracted → Notified: not extracted	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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.

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: Jun 29, 2011
Raw hash: 414793fc54ad927512908a4db7c01868a2d76e3860d426c9e8f5e3bc5d646213

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Reporting entityDepartment of Personnel and Administration

Victim entityDepartment of Personnel and Administration

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseRisk analysis completed immediately following breach

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing