TEXASMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareData EncryptedRansom DemandedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Health (basic)MediumResolved

Valley Baptist Medical Center – Harlingen

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Aug 12, 2022

To disclose

—

Affected

11,137

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

98%

Full breach record for Valley Baptist Medical Center – Harlingen →

Valley Baptist Medical Center – Harlingen (TX) reported to HHS on 2022-08-12 a Hacking/IT Incident (ransomware attack) affecting 11,137 individuals. Breached information was located on a Network Server. PHI involved included names, dates of birth, diagnoses, medications, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. Additional administrative and technical safeguards were implemented and workforce members were retrained.

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HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified

⚠ no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.

⚠ No discovery dateThe OCR public portal omits the discovery date, so the 60-day notification clock cannot be evaluated from this source — only that the filing was submitted.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Aug 12, 2022

Filed

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Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

HHS OCRbd_0f4242c74e6379fd2022-08-12Candidate

Name: Valley Baptist Medical Center – Harlingen
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Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Valley Baptist Medical Center – Harlingen
norm: valley baptist medical center harlingen
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 11,137nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Health (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: HHS OCR notified

During the incident: Notified affected individuals
Notified media
Provided substitute notice
Implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards
Retrained workforce members on data protection
Changes made: Additional administrative safeguards implemented
Additional technical safeguards implemented
Workforce retraining on protecting sensitive data
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: HHS notified
Discovery-date grounding: no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
HIPAA
Discovered: not extracted
→ Notified: not extracted
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: not extracted → Notified: not extracted	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings

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HHS OCRAug 12 · first

HHS OCRAug 12 · first · this page

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

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

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source URL: https://ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/breach/breach_report.jsf
DisclosureLens renders the full SEC/HHS filing inline below from the originating regulator’s public record (§4.5 fair report privilege).
Filed at: Aug 12, 2022
Raw hash: 2409f9075acfe6a6cb0c0c308d4c52cb516d99b6b6bc455cb799f7cbaa511f09

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityValley Baptist Medical Center – Harlingen

Victim entityValley Baptist Medical Center – Harlingen

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified affected individuals

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing