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Rhode Island Department of Health

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 7, 2022

To disclose

—

Affected

8,800

Confidence

98%
Full breach record for Rhode Island Department of Health →

Rhode Island Department of Health reported to HHS on 2022-12-07 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 8,800 individuals. A workforce member erroneously sent an email containing PHI — including names, addresses, and diagnoses — to unintended recipients. Breached information located on Email. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website. The workforce member was retrained on email security.

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

Dec 7, 2022

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.Confirmed8,800 affectedView incident

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.