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 May 26, 2026.
- Organization as reported
- Wellmark Health Insurance, IA
- Entity type as reported
- Health Plan
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Paper/Films
- Submission date
- May 26, 2026
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 8913, row:52)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Wellmark Health Insurance, reported that an employee mailed the protected health information (PHI) of 6,666 individuals to the wrong recipients. The PHI involved included clinical information. The CE notified HHS, the media, and the affected individuals. In response to the breach, the CE retrained workforce members to better protect its PHI.