WASHINGTONAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumContained

Dental Health Services

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 16, 2024

To disclose

—

Affected

1,778

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Dental Health Services →

Dental Health Services, Inc reported to HHS on 2024-04-16 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 1778 individuals. Breached information located on Email. The covered entity inadvertently emailed PHI (names, DOB, member ID, health insurance) to wrong recipients. The CE conducted an internal investigation, secured systems, implemented 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

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_9d630839d595904c2024-04-16Verified
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: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,778nationwide
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
Staff were retrained 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 (WA) — 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: cf31ad8a54e0abb1053af81728a728f9c1f4e40f27f8cb3ecba64b081b0f0da6

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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