TEXASAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Stephenville Medical & Surgical Clinic

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 23, 2017

To disclose

—

Affected

75,000

Confidence

96%

Full breach record for Stephenville Medical & Surgical Clinic →

Stephenville Medical & Surgical Clinic (TX) reported to HHS OCR on 2017-01-23 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 75,000 individuals. An employee accidentally emailed a master patient list (~61,701 individuals' PHI, including demographic information) to an unauthorized recipient from a Desktop Computer. The CE sanctioned the responsible employee, implemented additional safeguards, revised policies and procedures, and offered free credit monitoring to affected individuals. OCR confirmed all required breach notifications were completed.

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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

Jan 23, 2017

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed75,000 affectedView incident

Name: Stephenville Medical & Surgical Clinic
norm: stephenville medical surgical clinic
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Stephenville Medical & Surgical Clinic
norm: stephenville medical surgical clinic
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 75,000nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Desktop computer
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1048 Exfiltration Over Alternative Protocol
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: OCR provided technical assistance regarding individual and media notification requirements and confirmed breach notifications were completed.
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Sanctioned the employee responsible for the breach
Implemented additional safeguards
Revised and updated policies and procedures
Offered affected individuals free credit monitoring services
Completed required individual and media breach notifications
Changes made: Additional safeguards implemented
Policies and procedures revised and updated
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.

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: Jan 23, 2017
Raw hash: 69736da9ecc9cb2947f77098defc79c225e698dcb6ffb00f27edd83f19d902a1

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Reporting entityStephenville Medical & Surgical Clinic

Victim entityStephenville Medical & Surgical Clinic

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseSanctioned the employee responsible for the breach

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing