Social EngineeringHealthcareGovernmentHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDPHIPIIMediumContained

Itasca County Health & Human Services

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Apr 1, 2023

Filed

Jun 27, 2023

To disclose

12 weeks

Affected

2state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Itasca County Health & Human Services →

Itasca County Health & Human Services notified Montana residents of a phishing incident in April 2023. An employee's email account was compromised between April 7-11, 2023, leading to unauthorized access and copying of emails containing PHI, SSNs, and PII. The incident was discovered in April 2023. Remediation included network access restrictions and enhanced phishing training.

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Incident timeline

Apr 7, 2023

Begins

Jun 27, 2023

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This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

HHS OCRbd_ab9cfbf643337ee32023-06-27Verified

Name: Itasca County Health & Human Services
norm: itasca county health human
Domain: co.itasca.mn.us

Name: Itasca County Health & Human Services
norm: itasca county health human
Domain: co.itasca.mn.us
Industry: HealthcarellmGovernmentllm

Discovered: Apr 1, 2023
Breach occurred: Apr 7, 2023 – Apr 11, 2023
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jun 27, 2023
Affected individuals: 2state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDPHIPII
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Provided notice to the United States Department of Health and Human ServicesProvided notice to appropriate state regulators
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Began an investigation with the assistance of a nationally recognized digital forensics team
Reviewed the contents of the impacted email account
Ensured the security of all Itasca HHS email accounts
Provided notice to the United States Department of Health and Human Services and appropriate state regulators
Offered complimentary identity monitoring services through Experian
Changes made: Limiting outside access to our network
Enhancing employee cybersecurity awareness training by including additional training on recognizing phishing attempts
Engaging a third-party vendor to provide incident response planning and cybersecurity testing services
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 12 weeks(87 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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HHS OCRJun 27 · first

Montana State AGJun 27 · first · this page

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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/OCP/Consumer-notification-letter-374.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 27, 2023
Raw hash: f946f939f70512059a4b87f7773a67c140a5bb9b7a842b3ef144f0d14ac470b1

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityItasca County Health & Human Services

Victim entityItasca County Health & Human Services

Incidentdiscovered Apr 1, 2023

Stated responseBegan an investigation with the assistance of a nationally recognized digital forensics team

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov