AccidentalGovernmentHealthcareGovernmentMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDPHIHealth (basic)HighContained

Department of Health and Human Services

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Severity

High

Discovered

Dec 1, 2008

Filed

Dec 16, 2008

To disclose

15 days

Affected

9,300state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Department of Health and Human Services →4 incidents on file

The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) inadvertently sent an email attachment containing personally identifiable information (name, address, Social Security number) and Medicare Part D plan details for approximately 9,300 individuals to a list of health care providers on December 1, 2008. DHHS immediately contacted recipients to delete the information and confirmed deletion by most. No evidence of misuse was found. Affected individuals were notified via mail on December 15, 2008, and advised to place fraud alerts.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 15 days

Dec 1, 2008

Begins

Dec 1, 2008

Discovered

Dec 16, 2008

Filed

vs. sector median

9 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed9,300 affectedView incident

Name: Department of Health and Human Services
norm: department of health and human

Name: Department of Health and Human Services
norm: department of health and human
Industry: GovernmentllmHealthcarellm

Discovered: Dec 1, 2008
Breach occurred: Dec 1, 2008
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Dec 15, 2008
Affected individuals: 9,300state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDPHIHealth (basic)
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unknown
Regulator citations: Notified the New Hampshire Office of the Attorney General

During the incident: Contacted all recipients of the e-mail via telephone or by e-mail
Asked all recipients to delete the e-mail and the attachments in their entirety along with any copies that may have been made of them
Received confirmation from most of the recipients of the information that personal information has been deleted
Changes made: Undergoing a thorough review of what led to this incident
Put measures in place to ensure it does not occur again
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 15 days(15 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/health-human-services-20081216.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 16, 2008
Raw hash: 9078d7b1a307696b572672bd9ca36ba0519e31c2ffe306960730f520435eab1c

Reporting entityDepartment of Health and Human Services

Victim entityDepartment of Health and Human Services

Incidentdiscovered Dec 1, 2008

Stated responseContacted all recipients of the e-mail via telephone or by e-mail

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov