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.

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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

Sep 4, 2018

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.Confirmed516 affectedView incident

Name: Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services
norm: nebraska department of health and human
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services
norm: nebraska department of health and human
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 516nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Internal

During the incident: Notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media.
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative safeguards to better protect its PHI.
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: Sep 4, 2018
Raw hash: 18db2403dc73120b09473eba39c5fd3121031b9caaa3642666687d5927b3fc1e

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Reporting entityNebraska Department of Health and Human Services

Victim entityNebraska Department of Health and Human Services

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS, affected individuals, and the media.

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing