WASHINGTONAccidentalHealthcareGovernmentHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTMediumResolved
Washington State Department of Social and Health Services
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Full breach record for Washington State Department of Social and Health Services →Washington State Department of Social and Health Services reported to HHS on 2017-11-16 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 515 individuals. On September 20, 2017, a Western State Hospital staff member misdirected an email containing a spreadsheet to a private email address. The spreadsheet contained patient names, hospital admission dates, medical record numbers, birthdates, and diagnoses. The recipient deleted the email and attachment. OCR's investigation led to new access-restriction procedures, a risk analysis, and workforce retraining.
HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified8 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed515 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
- Nov 16, 2017
- Raw hash
- 01e7cd8a0c249797ccafcd90ccd3fdc238b145928eaf28cce805780d0156b8fc
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Washington State Department of Social and Health Servicesnorm: washington state department of social and health
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Washington State Department of Social and Health Servicesnorm: washington state department of social and health
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource defaultGovernmentllm
Incident
- Discovered
- Sep 20, 2017
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 515
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR investigation resulted in CE implementing new procedures, risk analysis, and workforce retraining.
- Initial access
- insider_action
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 8 weeks(57 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- HHS notified
- Discovery-date grounding
- unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status HIPAA Discovered: Sep 20, 2017→ Notified: not extracted— regulatory submission HHS notified
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.