MNSocial EngineeringHealthcareGovernmentFinancial ServicesHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASICHighResolved
Minnesota Department of Human Services
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Full breach record for Minnesota Department of Human Services →Minnesota Department of Human Services (MN, Health Plan) reported to HHS on 2018-10-09 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 20,800 individuals. Several employees were victims of a series of email phishing schemes. PHI involved included names, dates of birth, addresses, Social Security numbers, medications prescribed, and diagnoses/conditions. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, and subsequently implemented additional security safeguards and retrained staff. OCR obtained assurances of corrective actions. Breached information located on Email.
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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed20,800 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- 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
- Oct 9, 2018
- Raw hash
- dc880165d935317d104987bb8b41f7e7d837de18086dddfb130c40255c107061
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Minnesota Department of Human Servicesnorm: minnesota department of human
- Industry
- Insurance — Health
Victim entity
- Name
- Minnesota Department of Human Servicesnorm: minnesota department of human
- Industry
- Insurance — Health
- Industry
- Healthcaresource defaultGovernmentllmFinancial Servicesllm
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 20,800
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1566 PhishingT1078 Valid Accounts
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- Notified HHSOCR obtained assurances of corrective action implementation
- Initial access
- phishing_link
Compliance
- 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
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.