TEXASMisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHighContained

Texas Health and Human Services Commission

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 16, 2025

To disclose

—

Affected

94,261

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Texas Health and Human Services Commission →6 incidents on file

Texas Health and Human Services Commission reported to HHS on 2025-01-16 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 94,261 individuals. PHI including names, SSNs, financial info, and treatment data was inappropriately accessed by workforce members. Breached information located on Desktop Computer, Laptop.

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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

Jan 16, 2025

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.Confirmed94,261 affectedView incident

Name: Texas Health and Human Services Commission
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Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: Texas Health and Human Services Commission
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Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 94,261nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Desktop computerLaptop
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified HHS
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Terminated access to its PHI
Sanctioned the workforce members involved
Implemented additional safeguards to monitor access to PHI
Changes made: Implemented additional safeguards to monitor access to PHI
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.

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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: Jan 16, 2025
Raw hash: 772b0d93dc63e939da6936849872baf74363eee6c07916d43a0c4da917266afd

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Reporting entityTexas Health and Human Services Commission

Victim entityTexas Health and Human Services Commission

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseTerminated access to its PHI

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing