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MINNESOTAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Health (basic)Financial accountMediumResolved

Minnesota Department of Human Services

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 11, 2023

To disclose

—

Affected

4,307

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Minnesota Department of Human Services →5 incidents on file

The Minnesota Department of Human Services reported that an employee inadvertently emailed billing statements containing the protected health information (PHI) of 4,307 individuals to an unauthorized recipient. The PHI included names, addresses, claims information, and financial data. In response, the entity implemented additional safeguards and retrained its staff.

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

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Jan 11, 2023

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed4,307 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.