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Breach notice filed by Minnesota Department of Human Services (August 2024)

Organization named: Minnesota Department of Human Services Provisional: identity as filed, not yet matched to the directory
Type as the source lists it: Hacking/IT Incident

What the sources say

HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) Primary notice

Posted on the HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal with a submission date of Aug. 30, 2024.

Organization as reported
Minnesota Department of Human Services, MN
Entity type as reported
Healthcare Provider
Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information as reported
Email
Submission date
Aug. 30, 2024
Observed by BreachRecords
2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 9727, row:866)
Archived copy
Held in the private archive (provenance)

Minnesota Department of Human Services, the covered entity (CE), reported that threat actors gained access to a CE workforce member’s email account via a phishing attack. The email account contained data that included the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 4,329 individuals. The ePHI involved included individuals’ addresses, zip codes, dates of birth, names, social security numbers, diagnoses and conditions, lab results, and medications. The CE notified individuals, the media, and HHS. The CE took corrective actions in response to the breach including resetting the password of the affected account and conducting a forensic analysis of the breach.

The source's own words, from the revision above.

Figures, per source

  • 4,329 individuals affected (total reported), according to the HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal, source date Aug. 30, 2024, revision observed 2026-10-18.

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Timeline

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  • Submission date (HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal)
  • Observed by BreachRecords (revision 9727)
  • Approved by a reviewer

Organizations linked by a reviewer

Archived evidence

  • 3dbc27dd5742e041cc1e7fe18cc669e2901fbd3b86b7007ed27948ff4d406e1f
    text/csv, 5,530,996 bytes, retrieved from HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal, 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC. Archived privately · Provenance · Source page

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