TEXASHackingHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

MedSpring of Texas, PA

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jul 20, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

16,386

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for MedSpring of Texas, PA →

MedSpring of Texas, PA reported to HHS on 2018-07-20 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 16,386 individuals. An employee’s email was subject to a phishing attack, affecting 16,386 individuals at MedSpring of Texas, P.A. and five of its related covered entities and business associates. Breached information located on Email.

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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

Jul 20, 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.Confirmed16,386 affectedView incident

Name: MedSpring of Texas, PA
norm: medspring of texas
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: MedSpring of Texas, PA
norm: medspring of texas
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 16,386nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare providerBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: OCR provided technical assistance to the covered entity regarding breaches
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Provided breach notification to HHS
Provided breach notification to affected individuals
Provided breach notification to the media
Received technical assistance from OCR
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: Jul 20, 2018
Raw hash: 1e7e7c0d575054cc9cc00faf6adf5994732367e65b1ebcd241228439cf3a7a48

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Reporting entityMedSpring of Texas, PA

Victim entityMedSpring of Texas, PA

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseProvided breach notification to HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing