IOWAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)LowResolved

Iowa Health Link from Iowa Total Care

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 18, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

536

Confidence

70%

Full breach record for Iowa Health Link from Iowa Total Care →2 incidents on file

Iowa Total Care, Inc. (IA Health Plan) reported an error involving the inadvertent email of PHI (names, DOB, diagnoses, claims info) of 536 individuals to a wrong recipient on 12/18/2020. Response included employee retraining on email security.

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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

Dec 18, 2020

Filed

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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.Confirmed536 affectedView incident

Name: Iowa Health Link from Iowa Total Care
norm: iowa health link from iowa total care
Domain: iowatotalcare.com

Name: Iowa Health Link from Iowa Total Care
norm: iowa health link from iowa total care
Domain: iowatotalcare.com
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Dec 18, 2020
Affected individuals: 536
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1535 Unused/Extra Cloud Perms
Threat actor: Internal

During the incident: Retrained all employees on email security precautions
Changes made: Retrained all employees on email security precautions
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: Dec 18, 2020
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: not extracted → Notified: Dec 18, 2020	—	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: Dec 18, 2020
Raw hash: ad42fbe14ba135da801fea82fed6fa6eb89b3dd062b8a4360d98565b8b9dcbf2

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Reporting entityIowa Health Link from Iowa Total Care

Victim entityIowa Health Link from Iowa Total Care

IncidentMisconfiguration

Stated responseRetrained all employees on email security precautions

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing