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 April 29, 2021.
- 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
- Network Server
- Submission date
- April 29, 2021
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12184, row:3323)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Wyoming Department of Health, reported that an employee inadvertently made the protected health information (PHI) of 164,010 individuals viewable over the Internet. The PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, drivers’ license numbers, and laboratory results. As a result of OCR’s investigation, the CE implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards to better protect sensitive data. All workforce members were retrained on protecting and securing PHI.