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Rhode Island Executive Office of Health and Human Services

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Feb 27, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

1,100

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for Rhode Island Executive Office of Health and Human Services →

Rhode Island Executive Office of Health and Human Services (a state Health Plan) reported to HHS OCR on 2018-02-27 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 1,100 individuals. The CE inadvertently mailed PHI — including names, birthdates, and partial Social Security numbers — to wrong recipients. Breached information was on Paper/Films. No business associate was involved. The CE notified OCR, affected individuals, and the media, provided free credit monitoring, revised administrative safeguards, and retrained staff.

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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

Feb 27, 2018

Filed

—

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 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

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Name: Rhode Island Executive Office of Health and Human Services
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Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: Rhode Island Executive Office of Health and Human Services
norm: rhode island executive office of health and human
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultGovernmentllmFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,100nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified OCR
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Provided free credit monitoring services
Changes made: Revised administrative safeguards
Retrained staff
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 · 2 filings

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HHS OCRFeb 27 · first

HHS OCRFeb 27 · first · this page

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: Feb 27, 2018
Raw hash: 54e0b9abb60ae6d8b5a40ff7a0cdcce2ff199b338333c05577543a7b3ddf3188

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityRhode Island Executive Office of Health and Human Services

Victim entityRhode Island Executive Office of Health and Human Services

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified affected individuals

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing