IOWAMisuseHealthcareGovernmentHealthcareEmail MisuseUnapproved SoftwareUnapproved HardwareCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)HighResolved

Iowa Dept. of Human Services

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 10, 2014

To disclose

—

Affected

2,042

Confidence

95%

Iowa Department of Human Services reported to HHS OCR on 2014-03-10 a breach (type: Other) affecting 2,042 individuals. From February 5, 2010 to January 17, 2014, employees used personal email accounts, personal online storage accounts, and personal electronic devices for work purposes, transferring PHI outside the CE's secure network. Breached info included names, mailing addresses, SSNs, state ID numbers, dates of birth, case assessment PHI, and incident information. Located on Email, Laptop, and Other Portable Electronic Devices. No business associate was present. Affected individuals were notified, media was notified, and free credit monitoring was offered. OCR has consolidated this breach with another breach involving this CE.

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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

Feb 5, 2010

Begins

Mar 10, 2014

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2,042 affectedView incident

Name: Iowa Dept. of Human Services
norm: Iowa Department of Human Services
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: Iowa Dept. of Human Services
norm: Iowa Department of Human Services
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultGovernmentllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Breach occurred: Feb 5, 2010 – Jan 17, 2014
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 2,042nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)
HHS breach type: Other
Where the data lived: EmailLaptopPortable electronic device
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Unknown
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: OCR has consolidated this breach with another breach involving this CE.
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Notified affected individuals
Notified media
Offered free credit monitoring to affected individuals
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: Mar 10, 2014
Raw hash: 9714951577044d9722d09a0b2d2bf156de51595484f56bfa72406d83f6119c03

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Reporting entityIowa Dept. of Human Services

Victim entityIowa Dept. of Human Services

IncidentUnknown

Stated responseNotified affected individuals

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing