COLORADOHackingHealthcareHealthcareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDCriticalContained

Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing

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Severity

Critical

Discovered

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Filed

Aug 11, 2023

To disclose

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Affected

4,091,794

Linked

19 filings

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing →6 incidents on file

Colorado Department of Health Care Policy & Financing reported to HHS on 2023-08-11 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 4,091,794 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server. A business associate's software application exposed PHI including names, DOBs, SSNs, and health records. The entity provided credit monitoring and implemented additional safeguards.

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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 — partial

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Breach window unknown

Aug 11, 2023

Filed

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Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

This filing is one of 19 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (10) · sorted by filing gap

Maine State AGbd_4107138ac65485a02023-10-03 · +53dVerified
Vermont State AGbd_501ce56cdd46ef112023-10-03 · +53dVerified
California State AGbd_a36dbca8821d58c12023-10-03 · +53dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_a9f8eee865a209bb2023-10-03 · +53dVerified by operator

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Maine State AGbd_276c06374e7a08fc2024-02-19 · +192dVerified by operator
Oregon State AGbd_5167088d02685ddf2024-02-19 · +192dVerified by operator
Vermont State AGbd_5ebd8c098e6a6f5f2024-02-19 · +192dVerified by operator
Delaware State AGbd_6f832e7ad75b6a0c2024-02-19 · +192dVerified by operator
California State AGbd_90735d0659ea8b492024-02-19 · +192dVerified by operator
New Hampshire State AGbd_a3f112b2ddad6d7a2024-02-20 · +193dVerified by operator

Showing first 10 of 18 linked disclosures.

Name: Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing
norm: colorado department of health care policy and financing
Domain: hcpf.colorado.gov
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing
norm: colorado department of health care policy and financing
Domain: hcpf.colorado.gov
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 4,091,794nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Health planBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1530 Data from Cloud Storage Object
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified HHS

During the incident: Provided complimentary credit monitoring services
Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect PHI
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect PHI
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.

Filing propagation · 11 filings · 7 states

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HHS OCRAug 11 · first · this page

Maine State AG+53d

Vermont State AG+53d

California State AG+53d

New Hampshire State AG+53d

Maine State AG+192d

Oregon State AG+192d

Vermont State AG+192d

Delaware State AG+192d

California State AG+192d

New Hampshire State AG+193d

Pattern: first filing Aug 11 (CO), last Feb 20 (NH) — a 193-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

Cascade drawn from the first 10 linked disclosures of 18 — the full spread may be wider.

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: Aug 11, 2023
Raw hash: dfaa37e6b89a8f9cc026d2642ecffdfa799cd15024fc4c8e930379f23d470c59

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (10) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityColorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing

Victim entityColorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseProvided complimentary credit monitoring services

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing