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TEXASMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareData EncryptedRansom DemandedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)HighContained

Lavaca Medical Center

bd_34991f10666a64ae · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Oct 21, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

48,705

Confidence

98%
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.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Oct 21, 2021

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.Confirmed48,705 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.