MisuseGovernmentGovernmentPrivilege AbuseEmployee Data InvolvedPIIGovernment IDMediumContained

Department of Health and Human Services

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 14, 2016

To disclose

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Affected

185state residents only

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Department of Health and Human Services →4 incidents on file

Montana DPHHS Early Childhood Services Bureau notified individuals that a former employee unauthorizedly disclosed personal information, including Taxpayer ID/SSN, in a spreadsheet sent to state legislators. The breach was an insider misuse of valid accounts. Remediation included employee education and offering one year of credit monitoring via Experian.

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Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Apr 14, 2016

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.Confirmed185 affectedView incident

Name: Department of Health and Human Services
norm: department of health and human

Name: Department of Health and Human Services
norm: department of health and human
Industry: Governmentllm

Discovered: —
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 14, 2016
Affected individuals: 185state-resident count only
Data types: PIIGovernment ID
Attack vector: Insider
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: Internal
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Arranged for a complimentary one-year membership of Experian’s ProtectMyID® service
Contacted state legislators to begin discussions about secure disposal of the documents
Changes made: Work to educate our employees about how to ensure information protection
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/Department-of-Public-Health-and-Human-Services.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 14, 2016
Raw hash: edcbe164e263b9d275dabcf31b70bcaac94d3a1a0fdc19355968584e3f2a944d

Reporting entityDepartment of Health and Human Services

Victim entityDepartment of Health and Human Services

IncidentInsider

Stated responseArranged for a complimentary one-year membership of Experian’s ProtectMyID® service

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov