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TEXASAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Health (basic)MediumResolved

Houston Methodist Hospital

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Sep 25, 2017

To disclose

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Affected

1,359

Confidence

96%
Full breach record for Houston Methodist Hospital →5 incidents on file

Houston Methodist Hospital (TX) reported to HHS OCR on 2017-09-25 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 1,359 individuals. A workforce member sent an email to patients without using the BCC field, exposing recipients' email addresses to one another. Breached information was located in Email. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, updated technical safeguards, and retrained staff. OCR obtained assurances of corrective action implementation.

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

Sep 25, 2017

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.Confirmed1,359 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.