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TEXASMisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseData MishandlingCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Financial accountHealth (basic)MediumResolved

UT Southwestern Medical Center

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 27, 2024

To disclose

—

Affected

2,045

Confidence

97%
Full breach record for UT Southwestern Medical Center →7 incidents on file

UT Southwestern Medical Center (TX) reported to HHS on 2024-03-27 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 2,045 individuals. Breached information was located on a Network Server. Workforce members impermissibly disclosed PHI — including names, addresses, dates of birth, financial information, diagnoses, conditions, and other treatment information — without appropriate contractual agreements in place. The CE sanctioned the involved workforce members, implemented additional technical safeguards, and provided additional HIPAA training.

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 27, 2024

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2,045 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.