WISCONSINAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)LowResolved

Walworth County Department of Health and Human Services

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 12, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

907

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Walworth County Department of Health and Human Services →

Walworth County Department of Health and Human Services reported to HHS on 2021-03-12 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 907 individuals. Breached information located on Email. Employees inadvertently sent ePHI including email addresses and vaccination information to unauthorized parties.

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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

Mar 12, 2021

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.Confirmed907 affectedView incident

Name: Walworth County Department of Health and Human Services
norm: walworth county department of health and human
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Walworth County Department of Health and Human Services
norm: walworth county department of health and human
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 907nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified HHSOCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Changes made: Retrained employees on the proper methods of protecting ePHI
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: Mar 12, 2021
Raw hash: dbf3eacc6bc9afb70b29aded615f87b5fc0759ebf8569a52316301134ce8d886

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Reporting entityWalworth County Department of Health and Human Services

Victim entityWalworth County Department of Health and Human Services

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing