NEBRASKAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumContained

Southwest Nebraska Public Health Department

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jul 19, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

12,968

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Southwest Nebraska Public Health Department →

Southwest Nebraska Public Health Department reported to HHS on 2021-07-19 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 12968 individuals. Breached information located on Desktop Computer. A workforce member inadvertently uploaded a spreadsheet containing ePHI (names, addresses, DOBs, treatment info) to a public website. The BA removed the file and notified the CE, HHS, individuals, and media.

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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

Jul 19, 2021

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.Confirmed12,968 affectedView incident

Name: Southwest Nebraska Public Health Department
norm: southwest nebraska public health department
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Southwest Nebraska Public Health Department
norm: southwest nebraska public health department
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 12,968nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Desktop computer
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1567 Phishing
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified HHS

During the incident: Removed the spreadsheet from its public website
Notified the CE of the breach
Notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website
Changes made: Removed the spreadsheet from its public website
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: Jul 19, 2021
Raw hash: 9107ad2c8cbcd717385a1cbacc8cb5d730ee8a970744ed5e197742230d1e12e9

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Reporting entitySouthwest Nebraska Public Health Department

Victim entitySouthwest Nebraska Public Health Department

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseRemoved the spreadsheet from its public website

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing