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Iowa Department of Health and Human Services

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Iowa Department of Human Services reported to HHS on 2020-01-27 an Improper Disposal breach affecting 4,501 individuals. An employee of the entity's custodial vendor improperly disposed of documents containing PHI. Breached information was located on Paper/Films and included names, addresses, dates of birth, driver's license information, Social Security numbers, diagnoses/conditions, medications, health insurance information, and financial data. OCR investigated and obtained assurances that corrective actions — including physical and administrative safeguards — were implemented. Credit monitoring was offered to affected individuals.

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.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed4,501 affectedView incident

Source provenance

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 27, 2020
Raw hash: 53518629721e4ead8a1df019f09df43f1aed85d34ff4cd7dcce6d92af7698d41

Source filing

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Reporting entity

Name: Iowa Department of Health and Human Services
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Industry: Insurance — Health

Victim entity

Name: Iowa Department of Health and Human Services
norm: iowa department of health and human
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultFinancial ServicesllmGovernmentllm

Incident

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 4,501
Data types: IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
Threat actor: Partner
Regulator citations: HHS OCR investigation conducted; assurances obtained that corrective actions were implemented

Compliance

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

Extraction provenance

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.