WISCONSINHackingHealthcareHealthcarePhishingBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumContained

Wisconsin Department of Health Services

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 15, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

1,281

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Wisconsin Department of Health Services →7 incidents on file

Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported to HHS on 2021-01-15 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 1281 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server. A business associate experienced a social engineering attack compromising PHI including names and treatment information. The CE and BA implemented safeguards and provided credit monitoring.

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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

Jan 15, 2021

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.Confirmed1,281 affectedView incident

Name: Wisconsin Department of Health Services
norm: wisconsin department of health
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: Wisconsin Department of Health Services
norm: wisconsin department of health
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,281nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Health planBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 Phishing
Threat actor: External
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Provided substitute notice
Provided complimentary credit monitoring services
Implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards
Retrained staff on the requirement to protect and secure PHI
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards
Retrained staff on the requirement to protect and secure PHI
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: Jan 15, 2021
Raw hash: db0f290e70f22c3d946d997f7ab9880d4e2e60a90a5b329f352421c906025e5a

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Reporting entityWisconsin Department of Health Services

Victim entityWisconsin Department of Health Services

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing