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MISSOURIAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisconfigurationBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Missouri Dept. of Mental Health

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Oct 24, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

9,000

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Missouri Dept. of Mental Health →4 incidents on file

The Missouri Department of Mental Health reported that a former contractor of its business associate placed private client data in an unsecured cloud storage portal. The breach occurred between March 17, 2018, and August 31, 2018, affecting approximately 9,000 individuals. In response, the department confirmed the data was removed from the portal and obtained written verification that the data was destroyed or returned. The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) provided technical assistance to the department regarding security risk analysis and management.

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

Mar 17, 2018

Begins

Oct 24, 2018

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed9,000 affectedView incident

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.