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COLORADOAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedPHIIdentity (basic)Financial accountEmploymentMediumResolved

Colorado Department of Human Services

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 16, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

12,230

Confidence

69%
Full breach record for Colorado Department of Human Services →4 incidents on file

Colorado Department of Human Services reported to HHS on 2019-12-16 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 12,230 individuals. Breached information located on Other. The covered entity mailed PHI of 12,230 individuals to the wrong recipients. The PHI involved included names, employer information, and financial information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional technical and security safeguards to better protect its PHI.

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

Dec 16, 2019

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.Confirmed12,230 affectedView incident

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.