WYOMINGAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Wyoming Department of Health

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jun 25, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

2,154

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Wyoming Department of Health →5 incidents on file

Wyoming Department of Health reported to HHS on 2019-06-25 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 2154 individuals. Breached information located on Email. A workforce member emailed PHI to a billing vendor without encryption. OCR determined the incident did not meet the definition of a breach.

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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

May 1, 2019

Begins

Jun 25, 2019

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2,154 affectedView incident

Name: Wyoming Department of Health
norm: wyoming department of health
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: Wyoming Department of Health
norm: wyoming department of health
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Breach occurred: May 1, 2019
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 2,154nationwide
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 OCR

During the incident: OCR determined that the incident did not meet the definition of a breach
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: Jun 25, 2019
Raw hash: 66cad8c85be196a7b8005aa00a67f2d90606a50a877464e546e23bef680ce5ee

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Reporting entityWyoming Department of Health

Victim entityWyoming Department of Health

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseOCR determined that the incident did not meet the definition of a breach

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing