TEXASAccidentalHealthcareHealthcarePublishing ErrorBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICHEALTH_BASICMediumResolved
Houston Health Department
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Full breach record for Houston Health Department →The Houston Health Department (TX) reported to HHS OCR on 2022-02-24 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 10,291 individuals. The covered entity's business associate accidentally posted PHI — including names, dates of birth, addresses, email addresses, lab results, and treatment information — on its public website. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, provided substitute notice, offered complimentary credit monitoring, and implemented additional technical safeguards. Breached information was located in Electronic Medical Records.
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.Confirmed10,291 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
- Feb 24, 2022
- Raw hash
- 0ae3972d2183b36fb9db45bf6c93a1eab9306648127c0a1cde9931c66f628403
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Houston Health Departmentnorm: houston health department
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Houston Health Departmentnorm: houston health department
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 10,291
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICHEALTH_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- Partner
- 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.