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TEXASAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Health (basic)MediumResolved

Dallas County Hospital District

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 23, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

1,566

Confidence

96%
Full breach record for Dallas County Hospital District →2 incidents on file

Parkland Health & Hospital System (Dallas County Hospital District) reported to HHS on 2021-03-23 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 1,566 individuals. An employee inadvertently emailed ePHI — including names, dates of birth, and lab results — to the wrong recipient via email. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, provided substitute notice, sanctioned the responsible employee, and retrained its workforce.

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

Mar 23, 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.Confirmed1,566 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.