FLORIDAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial accountLowResolved

Florida Department of Health, Children's Medical Services

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Oct 23, 2015

To disclose

—

Affected

523

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Florida Department of Health, Children's Medical Services →

Florida Department of Health, Children's Medical Services reported to HHS on 2015-10-23 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 523 individuals. Breached information located on Paper/Films. An employee erroneously faxed an email roster with all patients needing medical supplies to medical vendors, exposing PHI including names, DOBs, and insurance info.

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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

Oct 23, 2015

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.Confirmed523 affectedView incident

Name: Florida Department of Health, Children's Medical Services
norm: florida department of health children s medical
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Florida Department of Health, Children's Medical Services
norm: florida department of health children s medical
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 523nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial account
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1530 Data from Cloud Storage
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions listed above

During the incident: Ceased the practice of sending daily rosters containing patient information to vendors
Sanctioned and re-trained the employee involved in this breach
Retrained all employees on its HIPAA policies and procedures
Set up a toll free telephone number to answer questions
Provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Posted substitute notice on its website
Changes made: Retrained all employees on its HIPAA policies and procedures
Ceased the practice of sending daily rosters containing patient information to vendors
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: Oct 23, 2015
Raw hash: ae4c43ac184cc21f22e6d59be030cd97e6937b55e0576e8ca85016f5b351db82

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Reporting entityFlorida Department of Health, Children's Medical Services

Victim entityFlorida Department of Health, Children's Medical Services

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseCeased the practice of sending daily rosters containing patient information to vendors

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing