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WISCONSINMisuseHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHighContained

Wisconsin Department of Health Services

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Oct 7, 2022

To disclose

—

Affected

12,358

Confidence

69%
Full breach record for Wisconsin Department of Health Services →7 incidents on file

Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported to HHS on 2022-10-07 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 12,358 individuals. Breached information located on Email. An employee emailed PHI (names, DOB, SSN, gender) to other employees and it was posted to the Internet. The CE provided complimentary identity protection services.

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

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Oct 7, 2022

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.Confirmed12,358 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.