ARAccidentalHealthcareRetail & ConsumerHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTLowResolved
WALMART INC.
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Full breach record for WALMART INC. →Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. reported to HHS on 2016-11-04 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 771 individuals. Breached information was located on Paper/Films. An internal file merging process error caused letters and refund checks to be sent to wrong recipients. PHI involved included patient names, store locations, optical order numbers, dates of orders, and refund amounts. The CE implemented improved administrative safeguards, quality assurance protocols, and staff retraining. OCR obtained assurances of corrective action.
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.Confirmed771 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
- Nov 4, 2016
- Raw hash
- 651b4c8c8de3c0b01ba7cc025029fb185f3beea792dbbfaf1983c8b451eac268
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- WALMART INC.norm: walmart
- Domain
- walmart.com
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- WALMART INC.norm: walmart
- Domain
- walmart.com
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource defaultRetail & Consumerllm
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 771
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR — breach notification submitted; OCR obtained assurances of corrective action implementation
- Initial access
- insider_action
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.