DisclosureLens
TEXASMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData EncryptedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHighContained

Preferred Hospital Leasing Muleshoe, Inc d/b/a Muleshoe Area Medical Center

bd_8ed1347313d26f84 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Jul 5, 2022

To disclose

—

Affected

1,212

Confidence

68%
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Preferred Hospital Leasing Muleshoe, Inc d/b/a Muleshoe Area Medical Center reported to HHS on 2022-07-05 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 1212 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server. A business associate was the victim of a ransomware attack compromising PHI including names, addresses, DOB, SSN, and financial data.

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, 2022

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.Confirmed1,212 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.