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Mississippi State Department of Health

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Full breach record for Mississippi State Department of Health →

Mississippi State Department of Health reported to HHS on 2018-03-26 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 30,799 individuals. On January 25, 2018, an employee accidentally emailed an unencrypted spreadsheet containing PHI (names, ID numbers, dates of birth, SSNs, and STD lab results) to external contractors on a joint project. Contractors confirmed they did not retain or share the PHI. The CE sanctioned responsible employees, provided onsite HIPAA training, and issued timely notifications to HHS, individuals, and media. OCR obtained assurances of corrective actions.

HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified9 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed30,799 affectedView incident

Source provenance

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: Mar 26, 2018
Raw hash: 2b1fdfba14022bdc4dd5399d27ffdd3470ec599dbcb6209b5d2363bd446f484f

Source filing

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Reporting entity

Name: Mississippi State Department of Health
norm: mississippi state department of health
Industry: Health Care Services

Victim entity

Name: Mississippi State Department of Health
norm: mississippi state department of health
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultGovernmentllm

Incident

Discovered: Jan 25, 2018
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 30,799
Data types: IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASIC
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1048 Exfiltration Over Alternative Protocol
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented corrective actions and performed its notification obligations.
Initial access: insider_action

Compliance

Time to disclose: 9 weeks(60 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: HHS notified
Discovery-date grounding: occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
HIPAA
Discovered: Jan 25, 2018
→ Notified: not extracted
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: Jan 25, 2018 → Notified: not extracted	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Extraction provenance

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.