TEXASAccidentalHealthcareGovernmentHealthcareDisposal ErrorCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Medium

VA North Texas Health Care System

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

May 25, 2010

To disclose

—

Affected

4,083

Confidence

96%

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VA North Texas Health Care System (TX) reported to HHS OCR on 2010-05-25 an Improper Disposal breach affecting 4,083 individuals. Breached information was located on Paper/Films. No business associate was involved. No further detail is available from the HHS web description.

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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

May 25, 2010

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.Confirmed4,083 affectedView incident

Name: VA North Texas Health Care System
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Industry: Health Care Services

Name: VA North Texas Health Care System
norm: va north texas health care system
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultGovernmentllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 4,083nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Improper disposal
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: HHS OCR breach notification submitted 2010-05-25

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: May 25, 2010
Raw hash: d97ed5e6c7a81ea9ec7fe75bc10d752aa8dc0312cfdf60982b1ea0c60170164f

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Reporting entityVA North Texas Health Care System

Victim entityVA North Texas Health Care System

IncidentMisconfiguration

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing