IOWAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial accountLowContained

Iowa Department of Health and Human Services

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

May 26, 2023

To disclose

—

Affected

833

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Iowa Department of Health and Human Services →9 incidents on file

Iowa Department of Health and Human Services reported to HHS on 2023-05-26 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 833 individuals. Breached information located on Paper/Films. An employee of a business associate inadvertently mailed PHI (names, health insurance, claims, diagnoses, treatment info) to wrong recipients. The CE notified HHS and media; the BA notified individuals, sanctioned the employee, 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

May 26, 2023

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.Confirmed833 affectedView incident

Name: Iowa Department of Health and Human Services
norm: iowa department of health and human
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: Iowa Department of Health and Human Services
norm: iowa department of health and human
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 833nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial account
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Health planBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1530 Data from Cloud Storage Object
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: The CE notified HHS

During the incident: The CE notified HHS, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website
The BA notified affected individuals
The BA sanctioned the responsible employee
Retrained its workforce on patient privacy and security
Changes made: Retrained its workforce on patient privacy and security
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: May 26, 2023
Raw hash: 3fb21715fd0f3afffe1f00f2339d14c3e1080d30c56688eeae475f346773bdc6

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Reporting entityIowa Department of Health and Human Services

Victim entityIowa Department of Health and Human Services

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseThe CE notified HHS, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing