TEXASPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryPatch Available Not AppliedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MinorCriticalResolved

Children's Medical Center of Dallas

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Severity

Critical

Financial impact

$3.20M

Discovered

—

Filed

Jul 10, 2013

To disclose

—

Affected

2,462

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for Children's Medical Center of Dallas →2 incidents on file

Children's Medical Center of Dallas (TX) reported to HHS OCR on 2013-07-10 a Theft affecting 2,462 individuals. Breached information located on an unencrypted laptop stolen from its premises between April 4–9, 2013. The ePHI of pediatric patients was exposed. OCR found longstanding HIPAA Security Rule noncompliance—including failure to encrypt devices since at least 2007—and imposed a $3.2 million civil money penalty. A prior 2009 BlackBerry loss incident was also investigated. No business associate was involved.

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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

Apr 4, 2013

Begins

Jul 10, 2013

Filed

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

HHS OCR enforcementbd_458719b86089324f2017-02-01 · +1302dVerified by operator

Name: Children's Medical Center of Dallas
norm: children s medical center of dallas
Domain: childrens.com
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Children's Medical Center of Dallas
norm: children s medical center of dallas
Domain: childrens.com
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Breach occurred: Apr 4, 2013 – Apr 9, 2013
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 2,462nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)Minor
HHS breach type: Theft
Where the data lived: Laptop
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Regulator citations: HHS OCR HIPAA civil money penalty: $3.2 million (Notice of Final Determination)OCR Notice of Proposed Determination issued under 45 CFR 160.420Children's did not request a hearing; paid full civil money penalty
Initial access: removable_media

During the incident: Encryption deployed on laptops, workstations, mobile devices, and removable storage media by April 9, 2013
Changes made: Implementation of encryption on all portable devices
Enhanced physical access controls to laptop storage areas
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.

Filing propagation · 2 filings

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HHS OCRJul 10 · first · this page

HHS OCR enforcement+1302d

Pattern: first filing Jul 10 (TX), last Feb 1 — a 1302-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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 10, 2013
Raw hash: 94363e66943a1711a06b6268864e69e1c8d984c9c1b9d6a721c056c9f761a470

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityChildren's Medical Center of Dallas

Victim entityChildren's Medical Center of Dallas

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseEncryption deployed on laptops, workstations, mobile devices, and removable storage media by April 9, 2013

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing