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NEW MEXICOAccidentalHealthcareHealthcarePublishing ErrorCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

New Mexico Department of Health

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

May 4, 2023

To disclose

—

Affected

49,000

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for New Mexico Department of Health →2 incidents on file

New Mexico Department of Health reported to HHS on 2023-05-04 a data breach affecting 49,000 individuals due to an unauthorized access or disclosure. A workforce member erroneously uploaded a file containing protected health information (PHI), including demographic and death information, to the Internet from a network server. In response, the department sanctioned the employee and implemented additional security safeguards.

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

? — ?

Breach window unknown

May 4, 2023

Filed

—

No filing yet · watching

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

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed49,000 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.