ALASKAHackingHealthcareHealthcareCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)HighResolved

State of Alaska Department of Health and Social Services

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Sep 22, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

500,000

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for State of Alaska Department of Health and Social Services →4 incidents on file

State of Alaska Department of Health & Social Services reported to HHS on 2021-09-22 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 500,000 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server. Case referred to DOJ and subsequently closed by OCR.

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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 22, 2021

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.Confirmed500,000 affectedView incident

Name: State of Alaska Department of Health and Social Services
norm: state of alaska department of health and social
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: State of Alaska Department of Health and Social Services
norm: state of alaska department of health and social
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 500,000nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified HHS OCRCase closed by OCR

During the incident: Referred to the Department of Justice for investigation
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 22, 2021
Raw hash: 5ff09c6b55b6452fe29b2de54d935239481f9f75fe664730859fea4832bdbba1

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Reporting entityState of Alaska Department of Health and Social Services

Victim entityState of Alaska Department of Health and Social Services

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseReferred to the Department of Justice for investigation

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing