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WEST VIRGINIAAccidentalHealthcareEducationHealthcarePublishing ErrorCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

West Virginia University Board of Governors

bd_c68ca70c3d6e5164 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 3, 2023

To disclose

—

Affected

2,453

Confidence

97%
Full breach record for West Virginia University Board of Governors →

West Virginia University Board of Governors reported to HHS on 2023-03-03 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 2,453 individuals. Due to an employee error, PHI (names, diagnoses, and other treatment information) was posted on a public-facing website hosted on a network server. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. Remediation included sanctioning the responsible workforce member, retraining staff, and implementing additional technical safeguards and updated policies and procedures.

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

Mar 3, 2023

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.Confirmed2,453 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.