DisclosureLens
KANSASMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareCustomer Data InvolvedData EncryptedRansom DemandedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial accountMediumContained

Pottawatomie County Health Department

bd_be32c5081f7b5225 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Oct 30, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

6,000

Confidence

97%
Full breach record for Pottawatomie County Health Department →

Pottawatomie County Health Department (KS) reported to HHS on 2021-10-30 a ransomware attack affecting the PHI of 6,000 individuals. Breached information located on a Network Server. PHI involved included names, addresses, telephone numbers, diagnoses, health insurance information, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and media, and implemented new technical safeguards and revised policies and procedures. OCR provided technical assistance regarding the HIPAA Breach Notification Rule.

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 30, 2021

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.Confirmed6,000 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.