PENNSYLVANIAAccidentalHealthcareGovernmentHealthcareProgramming ErrorCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial accountMediumResolved

PA Dept. of Human Services

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jul 16, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

2,130

Confidence

96%

Full breach record for PA Dept. of Human Services →2 incidents on file

PA Dept. of Human Services (Pennsylvania DHS) reported to HHS OCR on 2018-07-16 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 2,130 individuals. A programming error in the CE's online portal inadvertently exposed ePHI — including names, addresses, dates of birth, and financial information — of former household members to current users reviewing benefit information. The CE corrected the error, improved testing processes, and, following OCR investigation, completed a risk analysis and risk management plan. Breached information located on: Other.

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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

Jul 16, 2018

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.Confirmed2,130 affectedView incident

Name: PA Dept. of Human Services
norm: pa dept of human
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: PA Dept. of Human Services
norm: pa dept of human
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultGovernmentllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 2,130nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)Financial account
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Other
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Regulator citations: OCR investigated; CE conducted risk analysis and implemented a risk management plan

During the incident: Provided breach notification to HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Changes made: Corrected the programming error
Updated testing process to search for similar errors in the future
Conducted risk analysis
Implemented a risk management plan
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: Jul 16, 2018
Raw hash: 8d185721d6b7039305df6ad627a6f9728799fcc2dc37209870b149b3901cc3e5

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Reporting entityPA Dept. of Human Services

Victim entityPA Dept. of Human Services

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseProvided breach notification to HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing