TEXASMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareRansom DemandedData EncryptedCustomer Data InvolvedMulti-Stage ChainIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTHEALTH_BASICHighContained
Walnut Place
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Full breach record for Walnut Place →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.
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.Confirmed5,000 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 5, 2017
- Raw hash
- 1b915f4c47136e2d6b1712d67a81bd9ea995489d9c469f8529f16125009211ef
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Walnut Placenorm: walnut place
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Walnut Placenorm: walnut place
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 5,000
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTHEALTH_BASIC
- 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.
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.