GEORGIAHackingHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedMulti-Stage ChainPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountFinancialHighContained

Georgia Department of Human Services

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Oct 9, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

45,732

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Georgia Department of Human Services →5 incidents on file

Georgia Department of Human Services reported to HHS on 2020-10-09 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 45732 individuals. Breached information located on Email. Business associate employees were victims of an email phishing attack exposing ePHI including names, SSNs, diagnoses, and financial data.

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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

Oct 9, 2020

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.Confirmed45,732 affectedView incident

Name: Georgia Department of Human Services
norm: georgia department of human
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Georgia Department of Human Services
norm: georgia department of human
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 45,732nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountFinancial
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare clearinghouse
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: OCR provided technical assistance pertaining to the HIPAA Privacy and Breach Notification Rules
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: The BA retrained its employees on the proper methods of identifying fraudulent email communications
Implemented additional technical safeguards
The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice on its website
Changes made: BA retrained its employees on the proper methods of identifying fraudulent email communications
Implemented additional technical safeguards
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: Oct 9, 2020
Raw hash: 0ec1a2dfdf723379c604523ffc988be20748a1960d416f21787546b170c51c05

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Reporting entityGeorgia Department of Human Services

Victim entityGeorgia Department of Human Services

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseThe BA retrained its employees on the proper methods of identifying fraudulent email communications

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing