TEXASMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareData EncryptedRansom DemandedCustomer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASICHighContained
Lavaca Medical Center
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Full breach record for Lavaca Medical Center →Lavaca Medical Center (TX) reported to HHS on 2021-10-21 a ransomware attack (Hacking/IT Incident) affecting 48,705 individuals. Breached information was located on a Network Server. PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, medical conditions, and diagnoses. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, provided substitute notice, and responded by implementing additional administrative and technical safeguards and retraining staff. No business associate was involved.
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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed48,705 affectedView incident
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
- Oct 21, 2021
- Raw hash
- eaafa10e4dacc0ec78e1aa317ea449896f0bf68935c11e3118567c07fe9f94aa
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Lavaca Medical Centernorm: lavaca medical center
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Lavaca Medical Centernorm: lavaca medical center
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 48,705
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR notified
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.