WASHINGTONAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)LowContained

Washington State Department of Social and Health Services

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Aug 20, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

648

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Washington State Department of Social and Health Services →5 incidents on file

Washington State Department of Social and Health Services reported to HHS on 2020-08-20 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 648 individuals. Breached information located on Email. An employee sent ePHI (names and email addresses) to wrong recipients. CE strengthened administrative safeguards and retrained staff.

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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

Aug 20, 2020

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.Confirmed648 affectedView incident

Name: Washington State Department of Social and Health Services
norm: washington state department of social and health
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: Washington State Department of Social and Health Services
norm: washington state department of social and health
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 648nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1530 Data from Cloud Storage Object
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified HHS

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Changes made: Strengthened its administrative safeguards to better protect its sensitive data
All staff were retrained
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: Aug 20, 2020
Raw hash: cf0afbf6ba461b874ad18abbe1f3d7ee2b3d96c18e8208f51bca0997b4162a60

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Reporting entityWashington State Department of Social and Health Services

Victim entityWashington State Department of Social and Health Services

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing