TEXASHackingHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareAbuse Of FunctionalityCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDCriticalResolved

Employees Retirement System of Texas

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Severity

Critical

Discovered

—

Filed

Oct 15, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

1,248,263

Confidence

95%

Full breach record for Employees Retirement System of Texas →

Employees Retirement System of Texas (a Texas Health Plan) reported to HHS on 2018-10-15 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 1,248,263 individuals. A member manipulated an editable search field in the CE's online member portal, allowing them to view other members' PHI — including names and Social Security numbers. Breached information located on Other (online member portal). The CE improved safeguards, conducted workforce training, and provided notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media. OCR obtained assurances of corrective action implementation.

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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

Oct 15, 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.Confirmed1,248,263 affectedView incident

Name: Employees Retirement System of Texas
norm: employees retirement system of texas
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: Employees Retirement System of Texas
norm: employees retirement system of texas
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,248,263nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Other
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented corrective actions
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Improved safeguards on the online member portal
Trained workforce members on better practices to protect PHI
Provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Changes made: Corrected the editable search field vulnerability in the online member portal
Enhanced access controls and input validation
Workforce PHI protection training
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: Oct 15, 2018
Raw hash: ecc480e5ef0db4548ce965e9d6f14bc8ca053bf5b029488c5c908a44918afbc5

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Reporting entityEmployees Retirement System of Texas

Victim entityEmployees Retirement System of Texas

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseImproved safeguards on the online member portal

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing