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IOWAHackingHealthcareHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancialMediumContained

Iowa Department of Health and Human Services

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Oct 20, 2017

To disclose

—

Affected

811

Confidence

68%
Full breach record for Iowa Department of Health and Human Services →9 incidents on file

Iowa Department of Human Services reported to HHS on 2017-10-20 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 811 individuals. Breached information located on Email. Employees were subject to an email phishing scheme exposing PHI including names, addresses, DOB, SSN, and medical data. Response included credit monitoring, technical safeguard strengthening, employee sanctions, and security retraining.

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

Oct 20, 2017

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.Confirmed811 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.