DisclosureLens
TEXASHackingHealthcareHealthcareCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDCriticalContained

Harris County Hospital District

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Severity

Critical

Discovered

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Filed

Jul 21, 2023

To disclose

—

Affected

455,676

Confidence

68%
Full breach record for Harris County Hospital District →4 incidents on file

Harris County Hospital District d/b/a Harris Health System reported to HHS on 2023-07-21 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 455,676 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server. A software application exposed PHI including names, DOBs, addresses, SSNs, driver's license numbers, diagnoses, and treatment info.

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

Jul 21, 2023

Filed

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

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed455,676 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.