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TEXASAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

North Texas Medical Center

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 15, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

3,350

Confidence

98%
Full breach record for North Texas Medical Center →2 incidents on file

North Texas Medical Center (TX) reported to HHS on 2018-03-15 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 3,350 individuals. Breached information was located on a Laptop. The CE inadvertently provided two unredacted e-mails to a member of the public in response to a public information act request under state law, compromising PHI including demographic and clinical information of 3,368 individuals. The CE updated its policies and workforce training. OCR obtained assurances of corrective actions.

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

Mar 15, 2018

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.Confirmed3,350 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.