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

Wyoming Department of Health

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Severity

Critical

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 29, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

164,010

Confidence

70%

Full breach record for Wyoming Department of Health →5 incidents on file

Wyoming Department of Health reported to HHS on 2021-04-29 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 164,010 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server. An employee inadvertently made PHI (names, addresses, DOB, driver's license, lab results) viewable over the Internet. Remediation included additional safeguards and workforce retraining.

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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

Apr 29, 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.Confirmed164,010 affectedView incident

Name: Wyoming Department of Health
norm: wyoming department of health
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: Wyoming Department of Health
norm: wyoming department of health
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 29, 2021
Affected individuals: 164,010nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 Phishing
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: OCR investigation

During the incident: Implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards to better protect sensitive data
All workforce members were retrained on protecting and securing PHI
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards
Retrained workforce on protecting and securing 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: Apr 29, 2021
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: not extracted → Notified: Apr 29, 2021	—	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: Apr 29, 2021
Raw hash: f6d5ec5fbf34d066f9a7387a979ed68393d1840dc855c1d2c9217dfeead06b92

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Reporting entityWyoming Department of Health

Victim entityWyoming Department of Health

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseImplemented additional administrative and technical safeguards to better protect sensitive data

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing