TEXASMisuseHealthcareGovernmentHealthcareMisuse OtherCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMediumResolved
Harris County, Texas
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Full breach record for Harris County, Texas →Harris County (TX) reported to HHS OCR on 2021-07-27 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 26,000 individuals. An employee made ePHI viewable via the Internet from a network server. OCR subsequently determined that Harris County does not meet the definition of a covered entity or business associate, and the case was closed.
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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed26,000 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- 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 27, 2021
- Raw hash
- ac3f09a3f70fb05f9060f935371f653336d15956954ce30f4ae551fda18926fb
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Harris County, Texasnorm: harris county texas
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Harris County, Texasnorm: harris county texas
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource defaultGovernmentllm
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 26,000
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR reviewed; determined Harris County does not meet the definition of a covered entity or business associate; case closed.
- Initial access
- insider_action
Compliance
- 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
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.