TEXASAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial accountLowResolved

MEMORIAL HERMANN HEALTH SYSTEM

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Jul 2, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

507

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for MEMORIAL HERMANN HEALTH SYSTEM →3 incidents on file

Memorial Hermann Health System reported to HHS on 2019-07-02 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 507 individuals. Breached information located on Email. A workforce member inadvertently emailed a spreadsheet containing PHI (names, medical record numbers, financial/insurance info, clinical info). The CE sanctioned the employee, revised procedures, and contacted the recipient to ensure deletion.

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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

Jul 2, 2019

Filed

—

Corroborated · see linked filings

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

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

HHS OCRbd_7bfedd6a3d50b9952019-05-13 · +50dCandidate

Name: MEMORIAL HERMANN HEALTH SYSTEM
norm: memorial hermann health system
Domain: memorialhermann.org
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: MEMORIAL HERMANN HEALTH SYSTEM
norm: memorial hermann health system
Domain: memorialhermann.org
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 507nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial account
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1530 Data from Cloud Storage Object
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: notified HHSOCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted above

During the incident: Sanctioned the workforce member
Revised its procedures to better safeguard PHI
Contacted the email recipient and received assurances that the information had been deleted
Notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Changes made: Revised its procedures to better safeguard PHI
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.

Filing propagation · 2 filings

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HHS OCRMay 13 · first

HHS OCR+50d · this page

Pattern: first filing May 13 (TX), last Jul 2 (TX) — a 50-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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: Jul 2, 2019
Raw hash: 62abc731c3ed8004c1161168225607e9fdac6a0f6aefb138e4b46b9d418503de

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityMEMORIAL HERMANN HEALTH SYSTEM

Victim entityMEMORIAL HERMANN HEALTH SYSTEM

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseSanctioned the workforce member

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing