SOUTH CAROLINAMisuseHealthcareGovernmentHealthcareEmail MisuseMisuse OtherCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)CriticalResolved

South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services

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Severity

Critical

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 24, 2012

To disclose

—

Affected

228,435

Confidence

94%

Full breach record for South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services →

South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services reported to HHS on 2012-04-24 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 228,435 individuals. An employee sent Medicaid reports containing names, addresses, phone numbers, SSNs, and (for 22,648 individuals) Medicaid ID numbers to her personal email between January 31 and April 4, 2012. Breached information was located in Email. The CE sanctioned the employee, contacted law enforcement, tightened access controls, and implemented automated monitoring and annual training.

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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

Jan 31, 2012

Begins

Apr 24, 2012

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed228,435 affectedView incident

Name: South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
norm: south carolina department of health and human
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
norm: south carolina department of health and human
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultGovernmentllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Breach occurred: Jan 31, 2012 – Apr 4, 2012
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 228,435nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical MediumT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: HHS OCR notified; OCR obtained assurances of corrective actions
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Suspended access to most ad hoc electronic reporting
Initiated comprehensive review of privacy and security safeguards
Contacted local and federal law enforcement
Sanctioned the responsible employee
Revised security policies to restrict employee access to PHI to job-function-necessary only
Implemented automated monitoring system to track user activity
Implemented annual privacy and security training
Changes made: Access controls tightened to principle of least privilege
Automated user activity monitoring deployed
Annual privacy and security training instituted
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: Apr 24, 2012
Raw hash: f862b4de190fda5dcf72e2c0c93daf5908493876069e62ade301067924d2717a

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Reporting entitySouth Carolina Department of Health and Human Services

Victim entitySouth Carolina Department of Health and Human Services

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseSuspended access to most ad hoc electronic reporting

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing