MISSOURIAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Missouri Dept. of Mental Health

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Feb 21, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

1,000

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Missouri Dept. of Mental Health →4 incidents on file

Missouri Dept. of Mental Health reported to HHS on 2018-02-21 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 1000 individuals. Breached information located on Other. The covered entity erroneously mailed letters containing consumers' names to family members of individuals receiving services. Following the breach, the entity implemented additional safeguarding and quality control procedures for mailings and updated its Breach Rule Notification policy.

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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 21, 2018

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.Confirmed1,000 affectedView incident

Name: Missouri Dept. of Mental Health
norm: missouri dept of mental health
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Missouri Dept. of Mental Health
norm: missouri dept of mental health
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,000nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Other
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified HHSOCR obtained documented assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions listed above

During the incident: Provided notice of the breach to affected individuals, the media, and to HHS
Changes made: Implemented additional safeguarding and quality control procedures for mailings
Updated its Breach Rule Notification policy, specifically to include information about reporting breaches that affected under 500 individuals
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: Feb 21, 2018
Raw hash: cf078ba60bc354f503fbfe09fc2e3aeaf863b3346752a0c9a2a8ac6ad295e75d

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Reporting entityMissouri Dept. of Mental Health

Victim entityMissouri Dept. of Mental Health

IncidentMisconfiguration

Stated responseProvided notice of the breach to affected individuals, the media, and to HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing