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NEBRASKAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDMediumResolved

Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Sep 4, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

516

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services →

Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services reported to HHS on 2018-09-04 a breach where an employee mailed the protected health information (PHI) of 516 individuals to the wrong recipients. The breach involved paper documents and exposed names, identification numbers, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers. In response to the incident, the department implemented additional administrative safeguards.

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

Sep 4, 2018

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.Confirmed516 affectedView incident

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.