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TEXASMisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)LowResolved

Austin Hearing Services

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 23, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

600

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Austin Hearing Services →

Austin Hearing Services reported to HHS on 2021-01-23 a breach involving unauthorized access by a former employee, affecting 600 individuals. The employee used names and email addresses from the company's email system for solicitation. In response, the company implemented additional safeguards and received technical assistance from the Office for Civil Rights (OCR).

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

Jan 23, 2021

Filed

—

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.Confirmed600 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.