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ARKANSASPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareLossCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumContained

WALMART INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Oct 17, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

4,211

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

69%
Full breach record for WALMART INC. →15 incidents on file

Walmart Inc. reported to HHS on 2019-10-17 a Loss affecting 4211 individuals. Breached information located on Other Portable Electronic Device. A missing flash drive contained ePHI including names, addresses, dates of birth, and medical images. The entity notified HHS, individuals, and media, provided credit monitoring, sanctioned the employee, 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

Oct 17, 2019

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

This filing is one of 2 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

View merged incident ↗
Montana State AGOct 17 · first
HHS OCROct 17 · first · this page

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.