KENTUCKYAccidentalHealthcareGovernmentHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Cabinet for Health and Family Services

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Sep 19, 2012

To disclose

—

Affected

2,500

Confidence

95%

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Cabinet for Health and Family Services, Department for Community Based Services (KY) reported to HHS on 2012-09-19 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 2,500 individuals. Breached information was located in Email. An employee's email account generated spam that may have caused an unintentional release of PHI. OCR investigated; the CE notified affected individuals and media, required staff to sign PHI safeguarding agreements, and created a security training video. HIPAA policies were found compliant.

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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 19, 2012

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.Confirmed2,500 affectedView incident

Name: Cabinet for Health and Family Services
norm: cabinet for health and family
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Cabinet for Health and Family Services
norm: cabinet for health and family
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultGovernmentllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 2,500nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: HHS OCR investigation conducted; HIPAA policies and procedures reviewed and found compliant with Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules

During the incident: Breach notification provided to HHS, affected individuals, and media
Press release posted on CHFS website with toll-free number
Workforce members required to sign agreement acknowledging PHI safeguarding responsibilities including phishing attack awareness
Security training video created for new hires and re-training of current staff
Changes made: Mandatory workforce PHI safeguarding agreement signed by all staff
Security awareness video deployed for new hire onboarding and staff re-training
HIPAA policies and procedures confirmed compliant with Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules
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 19, 2012
Raw hash: d6b2208071fe62dd1a7be85a45e35daf74a61485ae078442299013e018e8d857

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Reporting entityCabinet for Health and Family Services

Victim entityCabinet for Health and Family Services

IncidentUnauthorized Access

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

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing