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TEXASMisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)MediumResolved

Steward West Division – AR/LA/TX ACE

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Feb 16, 2021

To disclose

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Affected

877

Confidence

97%
Full breach record for Steward West Division – AR/LA/TX ACE →

Steward West Division – AR/LA/TX ACE (Healthcare Provider, TX) reported to HHS OCR on 2021-02-16 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 877 individuals. An employee impermissibly accessed ePHI stored in Electronic Medical Records, including names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, addresses, phone numbers, and treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, offered credit/identity theft restoration services, and implemented additional technical safeguards.

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

Feb 16, 2021

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.Confirmed877 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.