MISSOURIHackingHealthcareGovernmentHealthcareStolen CredentialsCapture App DataBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedDelayed DiscoveryHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHighResolved

Missouri Dept. of Mental Health

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Feb 7, 2017

To disclose

—

Affected

5,685

Confidence

95%

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

Missouri Department of Mental Health reported to HHS on 2017-02-07 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 5,685 individuals. Business associate Burrell Behavioral Health reported that an unauthorized individual accessed an employee's email account containing ePHI. The employee also sent 13 personal emails to a third-party account. Compromised data included names, treatment information, SSNs, and financial information (~7,748 patients in the account). Breached information was located on Email. The BA conducted a forensic investigation, disabled global email internet access, and provided identity protection to affected individuals. OCR closed the case after confirming the BA agreement conformed to HIPAA requirements.

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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

Feb 7, 2017

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.Confirmed5,685 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 defaultGovernmentllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 5,685nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare providerBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: OCR reviewed business associate agreement during investigationOCR obtained assurances that business associate took voluntary corrective actionsCase closed after BA agreement determined to conform to HIPAA requirements
Third party: via Burrell Behavioral Healthbusiness associate
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Breach notification sent to HHS, affected individuals, and media
Notice posted on covered entity website
Third-party forensic investigation conducted
BA agreement reviewed and confirmed to conform to HIPAA requirements
Changes made: Business associate disabled email internet access globally for all employees
Sent educational documents and reminders about password security, HIPAA, and network security best practices
Provided one year of identity and credit protection to affected individuals
Directed third-party forensic IT investigator to determine cause and severity of breach
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: Feb 7, 2017
Raw hash: 6636cb0cce5eb075d5063be07fa48104ec1a000d4964753cc80d2af547cef712

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Reporting entityMissouri Dept. of Mental Health

Victim entityMissouri Dept. of Mental Health

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseBreach notification sent to HHS, affected individuals, and media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing