DisclosureLens
TEXASSocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial accountHighResolved

McAllen Hospitals, LP

bd_14bdb1ec0459b94f · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 20, 2023

To disclose

—

Affected

134,634

Confidence

96%
Full breach record for McAllen Hospitals, LP →

McAllen Hospitals, LP d/b/a South Texas Health System (South Texas Health System) reported to HHS on 2023-03-20 a Hacking/IT Incident (email phishing) affecting 134,634 individuals. An employee was targeted by an email phishing scheme, exposing PHI including names, diagnoses, and financial/claims information. Breached information was located in Email. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, and implemented additional safeguards and staff retraining.

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

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Mar 20, 2023

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.Confirmed134,634 affectedView incident

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.