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TEXASPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Houston Methodist Hospital

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 17, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

1,987

Confidence

69%
Full breach record for Houston Methodist Hospital →5 incidents on file

Houston Methodist Hospital reported to HHS on 2020-04-17 a Theft affecting 1987 individuals. Breached information located on Other Portable Electronic Device. The incident involved the burglary of external storage drives containing ePHI (names, DOB, treatment info) belonging to a business associate employee.

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

Apr 17, 2020

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.Confirmed1,987 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.