TEXASAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMediumResolved
UT Physicians
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Full breach record for UT Physicians →UT Physicians (University of Texas Physicians), a Healthcare Provider in TX, reported to HHS OCR on 2018-05-18 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 2,793 individuals. On May 7, 2018, a workforce member inadvertently inserted multiple patient email addresses into the 'To' field instead of 'BCC', exposing patient email addresses to other patients. Breached information was located in Email. The CE implemented technical safeguards, retrained staff, and notified affected individuals and the media. OCR obtained corrective action assurances.
HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified11 days discovery → filing
⚠ occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2,793 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- 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
- May 18, 2018
- Raw hash
- c7b40227050be9205902e08a3a56b231f1b1524e1167c4f71fb96edd0d964ee1
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- UT Physiciansnorm: ut physicians
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- UT Physiciansnorm: ut physicians
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- May 7, 2018
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 2,793
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions listed.
- Initial access
- insider_action
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 11 days(11 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- HHS notified
- Discovery-date grounding
- occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status HIPAA Discovered: May 7, 2018→ Notified: not extracted— regulatory submission HHS notified
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.