MISSOURIAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDMediumResolved

Missouri Dept. of Mental Health

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Nov 8, 2024

To disclose

—

Affected

537

Confidence

50%

Full breach record for Missouri Dept. of Mental Health →4 incidents on file

Missouri Department of Mental Health reported that an employee erroneously sent an unencrypted email containing the protected health information (PHI) of 537 individuals to the wrong recipients. The PHI included names, Social Security numbers, addresses, and dates of birth. The incident was reported to HHS on November 8, 2024. In response, the department implemented additional safeguards and retrained staff.

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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

Nov 8, 2024

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.Confirmed537 affectedView incident

Name: Missouri Dept. of Mental Health
norm: missouri dept of mental health
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Missouri Dept. of Mental Health
norm: missouri dept of mental health
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 537nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified HHS

Changes made: Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards.
Staff were retrained.
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: Nov 8, 2024
Raw hash: 7c3c9132c47c5ffe2660ff18af448a4b0f72b387172e57dbba433184c060f049

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Reporting entityMissouri Dept. of Mental Health

Victim entityMissouri Dept. of Mental Health

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseImplemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards.

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing