ARKANSASAccidentalHealthcareRetail & ConsumerHealthcareMisconfigurationCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumResolved

WALMART INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Feb 22, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

735

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

96%

Full breach record for WALMART INC. →15 incidents on file

Walmart, Inc. (AR) reported to HHS on 2018-02-22 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 735 individuals. An internal programming error in pharmacy account profiles caused ePHI — including names, contact information, dates of birth, insurance card holder numbers, and prescription history — to be viewable by other patients or their authorized representatives via the online pharmacy portal or record requests. Breached information located in Electronic Medical Records. OCR investigation concluded with CE implementing improved administrative safeguards and quality assurance protocols.

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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

Feb 22, 2018

Filed

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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 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_fb92d9b73b729d022018-02-22Candidate
HHS OCRbd_7694c98e7a9d3e4f2018-03-26 · +32dCandidate

Name: WALMART INC.
norm: walmart
Domain: walmart.com
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: WALMART INC.
norm: walmart
Domain: walmart.com
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultRetail & Consumerllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 735nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Electronic medical record
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: HHS OCR investigation; CE provided evidence of improved administrative safeguards and quality assurance protocols

During the incident: Breach notification provided to HHS
Breach notification provided to affected individuals
Breach notification provided to the media
Changes made: Improved administrative safeguards implemented
Quality assurance protocols updated to prevent similar incidents
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 · 3 filings · 2 states

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Montana State AGFeb 22 · first

HHS OCRFeb 22 · first · this page

HHS OCR+32d

Pattern: first filing Feb 22 (MT), last Mar 26 (AR) — a 32-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: Feb 22, 2018
Raw hash: ac54762616502edce9642c14147ecee4cb305312dcd3d8a4a97f4846a26821b3

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityWALMART INC.

Victim entityWALMART INC.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseBreach notification provided to HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing