TEXASAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedPHIIdentity (basic)MediumResolved

Medical Center Ophthalmology Associates

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 30, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

3,017

Confidence

69%

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Medical Center Ophthalmology Associates reported to HHS on 2018-04-30 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 3017 individuals. Breached information located on Email. A workforce member accidentally disclosed patient email addresses in the 'Cc' field of a mass email instead of using 'Bcc'. The covered entity sanctioned the employee and retrained staff.

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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

Apr 30, 2018

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.Confirmed3,017 affectedView incident

Name: Medical Center Ophthalmology Associates
norm: medical center ophthalmology associates
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Medical Center Ophthalmology Associates
norm: medical center ophthalmology associates
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 3,017nationwide
Data types: PHIIdentity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: provided breach notification to HHS

During the incident: Sanctioned the involved workforce member
Retrained employees
Changes made: Retrained employees
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.

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.

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: Apr 30, 2018
Raw hash: 11498bf401fa083d2faecb28ad7c69abc6f3b553e592904f2144ac4e09909fc1

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Reporting entityMedical Center Ophthalmology Associates

Victim entityMedical Center Ophthalmology Associates

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseSanctioned the involved workforce member

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing