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Texas Health Arlington Memorial

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Mar 23, 2011

To disclose

Affected

654

Confidence

94%
Full breach record for Texas Health Arlington Memorial2 incidents on file

Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital (Arlington, TX) reported to HHS OCR on 2011-03-23 an unauthorized disclosure affecting 654 individuals. The IT department activated a Business Associate Health Information Exchange (HIE) interface without patient notification or authorization. PHI transmitted included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, diagnoses/conditions, medications, lab results, other treatment info, and financial information. Breached information was located in Electronic Medical Records. Following the breach, the hospital revised IT processes, introduced a departmental checklist, and provided additional training to IT and registration staff.

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

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Mar 23, 2011

Filed

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.Confirmed654 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.