INDIANASocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMinorHighResolved

The Methodist Hospitals, Inc.

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Oct 4, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

68,039

Confidence

68%

The Methodist Hospitals, Inc. reported to HHS on 2019-10-04 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 68,039 individuals. Breached information located on Email. Two employees were victims of an email phishing attack exposing PHI including names, DOB, SSN, driver's license, passport, financial, and health data.

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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

Oct 4, 2019

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.Confirmed68,039 affectedView incident

Name: The Methodist Hospitals, Inc.
norm: the methodist hospitals
Domain: houstonmethodist.org
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: The Methodist Hospitals, Inc.
norm: the methodist hospitals
Domain: houstonmethodist.org
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 68,039nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMinor
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified HHSOCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Established a dedicated call center for questions or concerns
Offered credit monitoring and identity theft protection services to affected individuals
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards
Retrained its staff on the proper methods of identifying fraudulent email communications
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.

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: Oct 4, 2019
Raw hash: fd3c873e8691e0a10850047b965cb961d5862403fbb17b54c88fff16ee2c2329

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Reporting entityThe Methodist Hospitals, Inc.

Victim entityThe Methodist Hospitals, Inc.

IncidentPhishing

Stated responseNotified HHS, affected individuals, and the media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing