KSMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareCustomer Data InvolvedData EncryptedRansom DemandedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTMediumContained
Pottawatomie County Health Department
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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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed6,000 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
- Oct 30, 2021
- Raw hash
- 5370516bf73acfb6abb8d43473d1c8470cd8662d68abcd5b46b46e7eb1be7fc9
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Pottawatomie County Health Departmentnorm: pottawatomie county health department
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Pottawatomie County Health Departmentnorm: pottawatomie county health department
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 6,000
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR notified; OCR provided technical assistance regarding the HIPAA Breach Notification Rule
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
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.