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HHS OCRConfirmed1 filing · 1 stateLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedmoderate sensitivity
Incident · single filing

Department of Human Services, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania — July 2017 breach

One linked filing — more sources may join as they report · filed Sep 7, 2017. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

Determination

Confirmed

Members

1 filing

States

1

Affected · reported

517

First → last filing

Sep 7, 2017

incident inc_fad4eb98fb2e42cf · merged by deterministic

Confirmed breach. Intrusion Jul 5, 2017–Jul 13, 2017. 517 individuals reported across the linked filings.

Litigation Timing

Not recorded for this incident

Discovery variance · Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delay · Filing spanno leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster; needs two dated filings.

Regulatory clocksHIPAA HHS notifiedFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

Incident timeline

Jul 5, 2017breach begins
Sep 7, 2017first & only filing
watching for filings

No discovery date is recorded on any filing in this cluster, so the notification delay is not computable. Dashed segments fill in as filings merge.

Member cascade — every filing about this breach

  1. SEP 7HHS OCRHHS OCR noticeonly filing · states nationwide total 517day 0
  2. Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.

Roll-up facts — reconciled across members

Breach window
Jul 5, 2017Jul 13, 2017
HHS OCR
Discovered
Data types
PHI · Health (basic) · Identity (basic)
HHS OCR
Attack vector
Misconfiguration
HHS OCR
Response
Corrected envelope machine configuration setting · Reviewed printer's operating procedures with all operations staff and management · Trained staff
HHS OCR

Each fact cites the member filing that establishes it; when filings conflict, every value shows with its source.

Evidence ladder — rungs this incident occupies

Leak-site claim

No leak-site claim on record for this incident.

Press / market report

No press coverage linked yet.

State AG / regulator filing1 member

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

No SEC filing or victim statement yet.

About this clustering

DisclosureLens links filings into incidents through layered matchers: deterministic rules (same source document, multistate filings of one breach, tight-window same-victim pairs), a weighted-similarity scorer for cross-source candidates, and an operator review queue for everything uncertain. Each link records its own method and confidence — shown per filing in the timeline below. The system defaults to NOT merging when uncertain, because a false merge (collapsing two unrelated breaches) is more harmful than a false split (showing related filings separately); uncertain pairs route to human review instead of auto-merging. Filing summaries shown in the timeline are AI-generated extracts — verify each against its linked source.