TEXASPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHighContained

North Texas Heart Center, P.A.

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Nov 21, 2016

To disclose

—

Affected

4,210

Confidence

68%

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North Texas Heart Center, P.A. reported to HHS on 2016-11-21 a Theft affecting 4210 individuals. Breached information located on Other Portable Electronic Device. A former employee's activities led to the discovery of mobile computer drives containing ePHI. The business associate, Ambucor, worked with law enforcement to recover devices and offered one year of credit monitoring.

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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

Nov 21, 2016

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.Confirmed4,210 affectedView incident

Name: North Texas Heart Center, P.A.
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Industry: Health Care Services

Name: North Texas Heart Center, P.A.
norm: north texas heart center
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 4,210nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Theft
Where the data lived: Portable electronic device
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: OCR opened an investigation of the covered entity (CE)OCR initiated a separate investigation of the BA

During the incident: BA worked with federal law enforcement to recover the mobile devices
BA offered one year of free credit monitoring services to affected individuals
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: Nov 21, 2016
Raw hash: 518a04be8c146571925878d4e4ef992ba71ed7126225a8e772c403826e42f962

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Reporting entityNorth Texas Heart Center, P.A.

Victim entityNorth Texas Heart Center, P.A.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseBA worked with federal law enforcement to recover the mobile devices

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing