CALIFORNIAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumContained

Dental Health Services

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 16, 2024

To disclose

—

Affected

4,562

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Dental Health Services →

Dental Health Services reported to HHS on 2024-04-16 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 4562 individuals. Breached information located on Email. The covered entity inadvertently emailed PHI to wrong recipients.

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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

Apr 16, 2024

Filed

—

Corroborated · see linked filings

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

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

HHS OCRbd_a62c51fbe88dd4ee2024-04-16Verified
Washington State AGbd_31f4d4ded3c7db8a2024-04-04 · +12dVerified
California State AGbd_ab475130a7b32d822024-04-04 · +12dVerified

Name: Dental Health Services
norm: dental health
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: Dental Health Services
norm: dental health
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 4,562nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified HHS

During the incident: Conducted an internal investigation
Secured the affected systems
Notified HHS
Notified the affected individuals
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards
Retrained staff to better protect PHI
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.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 2 states

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Washington State AGApr 4 · first

California State AGApr 4 · first

HHS OCR+12d

HHS OCR+12d · this page

Pattern: first filing Apr 4 (WA), last Apr 16 (CA) — a 12-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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: Apr 16, 2024
Raw hash: e3f6a857eb49d3cf9b2e4c86e8a12640b63506e271b411c1dd9caef449858f78

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityDental Health Services

Victim entityDental Health Services

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseConducted an internal investigation

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing