TEXASPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)HighResolved

City of Houston Medical Plan

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 22, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

34,637

Confidence

50%

Full breach record for City of Houston Medical Plan →

City of Houston Medical Plan reported to HHS on 2018-03-22 a theft affecting 34,637 individuals. A laptop containing electronic protected health information (ePHI) was stolen from an employee's car. The ePHI included names, dates of birth, addresses, social security numbers, lab results, medications, and diagnoses.

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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

Mar 22, 2018

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

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

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed34,637 affectedView incident

Name: City of Houston Medical Plan
norm: city of houston medical plan
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: City of Houston Medical Plan
norm: city of houston medical plan
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 34,637nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)
HHS breach type: Theft
Where the data lived: Laptop
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Internal

During the incident: Notified OCR, affected individuals, and the media
Sanctioned the workforce member involved
Changes made: Updated its policies regarding the retention of records
Improved technical safeguards
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: Mar 22, 2018
Raw hash: 3d35d8af7acae95c8d38bdc91b9c1ebe2822b20b8bfe9e98829af3bfa8b1ffd1

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Reporting entityCity of Houston Medical Plan

Victim entityCity of Houston Medical Plan

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified OCR, affected individuals, and the media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing