FEDERALAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTMedium
WALMART INC.
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Full breach record for WALMART INC. →Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. reported to HHS on June 8, 2016, an incident of unauthorized disclosure affecting 27,393 individuals. The breach occurred when its business associate, Harte-Hanks Direct Marketing/Kansas City, LLC, erroneously mailed refund checks, exposing protected health information including names, store locations, refund amounts, and prescription or order numbers. The breached information was in paper form. OCR opened an investigation into the matter.
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.Confirmed27,393 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
- Jun 8, 2016
- Raw hash
- 29dcfe15094307cbc62ad6cbda3fd3009570d56f12f8385b619241e201dea81b
Source filing
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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 default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 27,393
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- Partner
- Regulator citations
- OCR opened an investigation of the covered entity (CE)
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.