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 June 25, 2019.
- Organization as reported
- Wyoming Department of Health, WY
- Entity type as reported
- Health Plan
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- June 25, 2019
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13353, row:4492)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
On May 1, 2019, a Wyoming Department of Health (WDOH) workforce member emailed protected health information to a billing vendor, the intended recipient, without first encrypting the email, per WDOH policy. Upon review of the breach report, OCR determined that the incident did not meet the definition of a breach took no further action.