TEXASAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICHEALTH_BASICMediumResolved
Houston Methodist Hospital
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Full breach record for Houston Methodist Hospital →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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,359 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- 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
- Sep 25, 2017
- Raw hash
- 3bdd1ecf71dd6fef23096a136360648b3d519bede65a32a6968bcecaab5f42dc
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Houston Methodist Hospitalnorm: houston methodist hospital
- Domain
- houstonmethodist.org
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Houston Methodist Hospitalnorm: houston methodist hospital
- Domain
- houstonmethodist.org
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 1,359
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICHEALTH_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1114 Email Collection
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR — corrective action plan with assurances obtained
- Initial access
- insider_action
Compliance
- 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
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.