GEORGIAMisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)HighResolved

Georgia Department of Human Services

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Nov 30, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

596,065

Confidence

69%

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

Georgia Department of Human Services reported to HHS on 2018-11-30 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 596,065 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server, Other Portable Electronic Device. An employee impermissibly disclosed ePHI including names, birthdates, and addresses. The BA sanctioned responsible individuals and retrained staff.

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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

Nov 30, 2018

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.Confirmed596,065 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: 596,065nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Network serverPortable electronic device
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified HHSOCR provided technical assistance to the BA on performing an accurate and thorough risk analysisOCR obtained assurances that the BA implemented the corrective actions noted
Third party: via Georgia Department of Human Servicesbusiness associate
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Sanctioned the responsible individuals
Retrained its staff on key elements of the HIPAA Rules requiring the safeguarding of ePHI
Changes made: Retrained its staff on key elements of the HIPAA Rules requiring the safeguarding of ePHI
Implemented corrective actions noted by OCR
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: Nov 30, 2018
Raw hash: c0e74bf48bacc1caf34427a50e841d458b265afd8b45c486d8086ac3e0faee30

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Reporting entityGeorgia Department of Human Services

Victim entityGeorgia Department of Human Services

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing