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SOUTH DAKOTAMisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHigh

Indian Health Service, Aberdeen Area Office

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Nov 13, 2014

To disclose

—

Affected

1,632

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Indian Health Service, Aberdeen Area Office →

Indian Health Service, Aberdeen Area Office reported to HHS on November 13, 2014, an incident where an employee of a business associate sent protected health information to a personal email account. The breach, which occurred between March 2013 and August 2014, affected 1,632 individuals and involved names, Social Security numbers, and dates of birth. In response, the entity terminated the employee's contract and obtained written assurance that the data was deleted.

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

Mar 1, 2013

Begins

Nov 13, 2014

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,632 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.