WISCONSINAccidentalHealthcareEducationHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

University of Wisconsin - Madison

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Sep 7, 2017

To disclose

—

Affected

1,000

Confidence

98%

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University of Wisconsin - Madison reported to HHS on 2017-09-07 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 1,000 individuals. Employees mailed postcards containing PHI including names, addresses, medications prescribed, and other clinical information. Breached information was on Paper/Films. The CE notified HHS, media, and affected individuals; offered free identity protection services; implemented administrative safeguards; retrained and sanctioned involved employees. OCR obtained assurances of corrective actions.

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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 — partial

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Breach window unknown

Sep 7, 2017

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,000 affectedView incident

Name: University of Wisconsin - Madison
norm: university of wisconsin madison
Domain: wisc.edu
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: University of Wisconsin - Madison
norm: university of wisconsin madison
Domain: wisc.edu
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultEducationllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,000nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Breach notification sent to HHS, media, and affected individuals
Free identity protection services offered to all affected individuals
Additional administrative safeguards implemented
Employees retrained
Employees involved were sanctioned
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative safeguards
Retrained employees
Sanctioned employees involved in the breach
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: Sep 7, 2017
Raw hash: 81d1529844a76e801338f0ed57b66e23605e767cafc693ba2e34a07346e7db17

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Reporting entityUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison

Victim entityUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseBreach notification sent to HHS, media, and affected individuals

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing