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COLORADOAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisconfigurationCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)PHIMediumResolved

Pitkin County

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Feb 9, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

1,454

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Pitkin County →2 incidents on file

Pitkin County reported to HHS on 2021-02-09 a data breach affecting 1,454 individuals due to unauthorized access or disclosure. Electronic protected health information was exposed and viewable on the internet from a network server. The exposed data included names, birthdates, addresses, diagnoses, lab results, and other treatment information. In response, the county retrained staff, strengthened its security safeguards, and offered complimentary credit monitoring and identity restoration services.

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

Feb 9, 2021

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.Confirmed1,454 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.