WISCONSINHackingHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHighContained

Wisconsin Department of Health Services

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Jun 4, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

2,868

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Wisconsin Department of Health Services →7 incidents on file

Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported to HHS on 2021-06-04 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 2868 individuals. Breached information located on Email. An employee was phished, compromising PHI including names, DOBs, addresses, SSNs, and diagnoses. The CE provided identity protection and enhanced safeguards.

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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

Jun 4, 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.Confirmed2,868 affectedView incident

Name: Wisconsin Department of Health Services
norm: wisconsin department of health
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: Wisconsin Department of Health Services
norm: wisconsin department of health
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 2,868nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified HHS
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Provided substitute notice
Provided complimentary identity protection services
Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Retrained staff on email security precautions
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Retrained staff on email security precautions
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: Jun 4, 2021
Raw hash: 01e712a513b9fc0b302a4beefabf2f79ae3b03172b770975877d9a0415af7051

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Reporting entityWisconsin Department of Health Services

Victim entityWisconsin Department of Health Services

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing