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Wisconsin Department of Corrections

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jul 15, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

1,853

Confidence

95%
Full breach record for Wisconsin Department of Corrections →3 incidents on file

Wisconsin Department of Corrections reported to HHS on 2020-07-15 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 1,853 individuals. PHI (names and addresses) was viewable on several websites managed by the entity's business associate. Breached information was located on a Network Server. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. The BA subsequently strengthened its technical safeguards.

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

Jul 15, 2020

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.Confirmed1,853 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.