WALMART INC.
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Full breach record for WALMART INC. →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.
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_fb92d9b73b729d02Montana State AGfiled 2018-02-22Candidate
- bd_7694c98e7a9d3e4fHHS OCRfiled 2018-03-26(32d gap)Candidate
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
- Feb 22, 2018
- Raw hash
- ac54762616502edce9642c14147ecee4cb305312dcd3d8a4a97f4846a26821b3
Source filing
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 defaultRetail & Consumerllm
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 735
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR investigation; CE provided evidence of improved administrative safeguards and quality assurance protocols
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.