PAAccidentalHealthcareGovernmentHealthcareProgramming ErrorCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTMediumResolved
PA Dept. of Human Services
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Full breach record for PA Dept. of Human Services →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.
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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2,130 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- 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
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- PA Dept. of Human Servicesnorm: pa dept of human
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- PA Dept. of Human Servicesnorm: pa dept of human
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource defaultGovernmentllm
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 2,130
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
- 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
Compliance
- 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
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.