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IOWASocial EngineeringHealthcareGovernmentHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial accountHighResolved

Cedar County Iowa

bd_abe9a41f901fd9b0 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Oct 8, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

1,138

Confidence

97%
Full breach record for Cedar County Iowa →

Cedar County Iowa reported to HHS on 2020-10-08 a Hacking/IT Incident (email phishing attack) affecting 1,138 individuals. Employees were victims of a phishing attack compromising ePHI stored in email. Data exposed included names, SSNs, addresses, driver's license numbers, dates of birth, diagnoses, medications, financial data, and other treatment information. The CE notified affected individuals, offered credit monitoring, and implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards. OCR provided technical assistance.

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

Oct 8, 2020

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.Confirmed1,138 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.