TEXASMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareRansom DemandedData EncryptedCustomer Data InvolvedMulti-Stage ChainIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)HighContained

Walnut Place

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Jul 5, 2017

To disclose

—

Affected

5,000

Confidence

98%

Full breach record for Walnut Place →2 incidents on file

Walnut Place (TX), a healthcare provider, reported to HHS on 2017-07-05 two ransomware attacks on a network server containing ePHI affecting approximately 5,000 individuals (combined ~6,500 across both incidents). Exposed data included names, SSNs, driver's license numbers, dates of birth, addresses, phone numbers, medical record numbers, payment information, insurance information, and clinical information. The CE removed infected files, notified HHS/individuals/media, improved safeguards, and retrained staff. OCR obtained assurances of corrective actions.

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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 5, 2017

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.Confirmed5,000 affectedView incident

Name: Walnut Place
norm: walnut place
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Walnut Place
norm: walnut place
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 5,000nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: HHS OCR notified; OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented corrective actions to enhance its security controls.

During the incident: Contained and stopped the attack by removing infected files from the server.
Provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media.
Improved administrative and technical safeguards.
Retrained staff on observing and reporting malicious software.
Changes made: Implemented corrective actions to enhance security controls.
Improved administrative and technical safeguards.
Staff retrained on malicious software detection and reporting.
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 5, 2017
Raw hash: 1b915f4c47136e2d6b1712d67a81bd9ea995489d9c469f8529f16125009211ef

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Reporting entityWalnut Place

Victim entityWalnut Place

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseContained and stopped the attack by removing infected files from the server.

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing