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TEXASAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Houston Methodist Specialty Physician Group

bd_cc92c8878fe98922 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Oct 10, 2025

To disclose

—

Affected

2,329

Confidence

98%
Full breach record for Houston Methodist Specialty Physician Group →

Houston Methodist Specialty Physician Group (TX) reported to HHS on 2025-10-10 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 2,329 individuals. An employee mailed PHI — including names and treatment information — to wrong recipients (Paper/Films). The covered entity notified HHS, affected individuals, and media. In response, the employee was sanctioned and workforce members were retrained on PHI protection. No business associate was involved.

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

Oct 10, 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.Confirmed2,329 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.