IOWAHackingHealthcareHealthcareData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)PIIMedium

Wellmark Health Insurance

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

May 26, 2026

To disclose

—

Affected

6,666state residents only

Confidence

71%

Full breach record for Wellmark Health Insurance →

Wellmark Health Insurance, a health plan based in Iowa, reported a breach involving unauthorized access to paper/film records affecting 6,666 individuals. The incident was disclosed on May 26, 2026. No business associate was involved.

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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

May 26, 2026

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed6,666 affectedView incident

Name: Wellmark Health Insurance
norm: wellmark health insurance

Name: Wellmark Health Insurance
norm: wellmark health insurance
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: May 26, 2026
Affected individuals: 6,666state-resident count only
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)PII
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1119 Automated Collection
Threat actor: External

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: May 26, 2026
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: not extracted → Notified: May 26, 2026	—	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: May 26, 2026
Raw hash: 40a1cf7cb9657102c23c35584903916fcf745a0419bdbbfeb8a26591a06c1192

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Reporting entityWellmark Health Insurance

Victim entityWellmark Health Insurance

IncidentUnauthorized Access

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing