WALMART INC.
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Full breach record for WALMART INC. →Walmart Stores, Inc. (AR, Healthcare Provider) reported to HHS OCR on 2016-03-01 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 4,800 individuals. A software change caused a technical error that made ePHI viewable on Walmart's online pharmacy account portal. Exposed data included names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, prescriptions, insurance information, treatment information, and last four digits of credit card numbers. Breached information located on Electronic Medical Record. Walmart notified affected individuals, offered identity theft protection, and implemented additional privacy and security measures.
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_7a140bd37681a101Montana State AGfiled 2016-03-01Candidate
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
- Mar 1, 2016
- Raw hash
- 237a4f1ad4416f768358da8ac42526acc3af89fa8e0a19db0903a7c802a4f4ca
Source filing
Reporting entity
- Name
- WALMART INC.norm: walmart
- Domain
- walmart.com
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- WALMART INC.norm: walmart
- Domain
- walmart.com
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource defaultRetail & Consumerllm
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 4,800
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1213 Data from Information Repositories
- Regulator citations
- OCR obtained assurances from Walmart that it implemented the actions noted above.
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.