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Dallas County Mental Health Mental Retardation Center

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Severity

Critical

Discovered

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Filed

Nov 17, 2017

To disclose

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Affected

120,259

Confidence

69%
Full breach record for Dallas County Mental Health Mental Retardation Center →5 incidents on file

Dallas County Mental Health Mental Retardation Center dba Metrocare Services reported to HHS on 2017-11-17 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 120,259 individuals. Breached information located on Email. Employees were victims of an email phishing attack exposing ePHI including names, addresses, DOB, driver's license numbers, SSNs, and medical treatment information. The entity implemented security safeguards and retrained staff.

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

Nov 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.Confirmed120,259 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.