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TEXASMalwareHealthcareHealthcarePHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumContained

Memorial Hospital Clinic West

bd_285dc9cb7e44b7b9 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 26, 2017

To disclose

—

Affected

1,363

Confidence

67%
Full breach record for Memorial Hospital Clinic West →2 incidents on file

Seminole Hospital District of Gaines County Texas reported to HHS on 2017-04-26 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 1363 individuals. Breached information located on Electronic Medical Record, Network Server. A ransomware attack encrypted PHI of 521 MHCW and 842 MHCS patients. Notification was provided to HHS, individuals, and media. Staff retraining and additional software were deployed.

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

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Apr 26, 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.Confirmed1,363 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.