WISCONSINSocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumContained

Walworth County, Wisconsin

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 18, 2022

To disclose

—

Affected

1,212

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Walworth County, Wisconsin →2 incidents on file

Walworth County, Wisconsin reported to HHS on 2022-01-18 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 1212 individuals. Breached information located on Email. Employees were victims of an email phishing attack compromising PHI including names, DOB, addresses, and diagnoses.

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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

Jan 18, 2022

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.Confirmed1,212 affectedView incident

Name: Walworth County, Wisconsin
norm: walworth county wisconsin
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Walworth County, Wisconsin
norm: walworth county wisconsin
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,212nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified HHSOCR provided technical assistance to the CE regarding the HIPAA Rules
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS and the affected individuals
Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its PHI
Staff were retrained on email security
OCR provided technical assistance to the CE regarding the HIPAA Rules
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Retrained staff on email security
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: Jan 18, 2022
Raw hash: 062ba492cf933042cc932ea60c9d9e4c42edbc906c2da012e1a38a0db4e5e14c

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Reporting entityWalworth County, Wisconsin

Victim entityWalworth County, Wisconsin

IncidentPhishing

Stated responseNotified HHS and the affected individuals

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing