TEXASAccidentalHealthcareHealthcarePublishing ErrorBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Health (basic)MediumResolved

Houston Health Department

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Feb 24, 2022

To disclose

—

Affected

10,291

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for Houston Health Department →3 incidents on file

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.

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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

Feb 24, 2022

Filed

—

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.Confirmed10,291 affectedView incident

Name: Houston Health Department
norm: houston health department
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Houston Health Department
norm: houston health department
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 10,291nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Health (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Electronic medical record
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Partner
Regulator citations: HHS OCR notified

During the incident: Notified HHS OCR
Notified affected individuals
Notified media
Provided substitute notice
Provided complimentary credit monitoring services to affected individuals
Implemented additional technical safeguards
Changes made: Additional technical safeguards implemented
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: Feb 24, 2022
Raw hash: 0ae3972d2183b36fb9db45bf6c93a1eab9306648127c0a1cde9931c66f628403

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Reporting entityHouston Health Department

Victim entityHouston Health Department

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS OCR

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing