TEXASMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareData EncryptedRansom DemandedCustomer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICHEALTH_BASICMediumResolved
Valley Baptist Medical Center – Harlingen
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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.
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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed11,137 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- 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
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Valley Baptist Medical Center – Harlingennorm: valley baptist medical center harlingen
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Valley Baptist Medical Center – Harlingennorm: valley baptist medical center harlingen
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 11,137
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICHEALTH_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR notified
Compliance
- 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
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.