TEXASAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Houston Methodist Hospital

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 17, 2017

To disclose

—

Affected

1,417

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Houston Methodist Hospital →5 incidents on file

Houston Methodist Hospital reported to HHS on 2017-03-17 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 1417 individuals. Breached information located on Email. A workforce member erroneously sent an email disclosing the protected health information (PHI) of 1,417 patients to other patients listed on the email. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In response to the incident, the CE implemented an additional technical safeguard to prevent similar situations and re-trained its workforce members on the proper use of email when communicating with patients.

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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

Mar 17, 2017

Filed

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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.Confirmed1,417 affectedView incident

Name: Houston Methodist Hospital
norm: houston methodist hospital
Domain: houstonmethodist.org
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Houston Methodist Hospital
norm: houston methodist hospital
Domain: houstonmethodist.org
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,417nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
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: OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted above

During the incident: Provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Implemented an additional technical safeguard to prevent similar situations
Re-trained its workforce members on the proper use of email when communicating with patients
Changes made: Implemented an additional technical safeguard to prevent similar situations
Re-trained its workforce members on the proper use of email when communicating with patients
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: Mar 17, 2017
Raw hash: 7e45195c63c7acaa9a95b7d3e36b9a546ee41d4ffc23ed2a155d890e526d5cd2

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Reporting entityHouston Methodist Hospital

Victim entityHouston Methodist Hospital

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseProvided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing