TEXASMisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Children's Medical Clinics of East Texas

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Oct 28, 2015

To disclose

—

Affected

16,000

Confidence

98%

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A workforce member of Children's Medical Clinics of East Texas photographed PHI displayed on a workstation computer and disclosed the images to a former workforce member. The PHI included names, dates of birth, and diagnoses/treatment information of 15,916 individuals. The CE filed a police report, notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, and implemented corrective actions including improved physical, administrative, and technical safeguards and staff retraining. Breached information located on Desktop Computer. Submitted to HHS on 2015-10-28.

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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 — partial

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Breach window unknown

Oct 28, 2015

Filed

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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.Confirmed16,000 affectedView incident

Name: Children's Medical Clinics of East Texas
norm: children s medical clinics of east texas
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Children's Medical Clinics of East Texas
norm: children s medical clinics of east texas
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 16,000nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Desktop computer
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions listed.
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Filed police report
Provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Improved physical security
Improved administrative and technical safeguards
Retrained staff
Changes made: Improved physical security controls
Enhanced administrative safeguards
Enhanced technical safeguards
Staff retraining
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.

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: Oct 28, 2015
Raw hash: 3c512b5f3a008054ed007f06f4f8d9da61158d6822adaa3124e7b7f77f32e520

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Reporting entityChildren's Medical Clinics of East Texas

Victim entityChildren's Medical Clinics of East Texas

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseFiled police report

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing