WISCONSINMisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)HighResolved

Adams County

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 11, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

258,120

Confidence

50%

Full breach record for Adams County →

Adams County Health and Human Services Department reported that two employees impermissibly accessed protected health information (PHI), affecting 258,120 individuals. In response, Adams County sanctioned the employees, locked down affected programs, and reset all network access credentials. OCR provided technical guidance to the entity regarding its HIPAA obligations.

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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

Dec 11, 2018

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.Confirmed258,120 affectedView incident

Name: Adams County
norm: adams county
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Adams County
norm: adams county
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 258,120nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Network serverOther
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified HHSOCR provided technical assistance

During the incident: Sanctioned the employees
Locked down the affected programs
Reset all access credentials across its network
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: Dec 11, 2018
Raw hash: 5976f04f70aeb90db2c053b395a3937bf521995470519363aff2d7f4655353b4

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Reporting entityAdams County

Victim entityAdams County

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseSanctioned the employees

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing