AccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)MediumResolved

North Texas Medical Center

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Feb 26, 2018

Filed

Apr 23, 2018

To disclose

8 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for North Texas Medical Center →2 incidents on file

North Texas Medical Center (NTMC) notified the New Hampshire Attorney General of a data security incident discovered on February 26, 2018. NTMC inadvertently provided a spreadsheet containing one New Hampshire resident's PII (name, SSN, DOB, admission/discharge dates, department) in response to a Texas Public Information Act request. NTMC contacted the recipient, who destroyed the data. NTMC offered 12 months of identity protection services to the affected resident.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 8 weeks / 56 days

Feb 26, 2018

Discovered

Apr 23, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

3 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1 affectedView incident

Name: North Texas Medical Center
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Name: North Texas Medical Center
norm: north texas medical center
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: Feb 26, 2018
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 23, 2018
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1567 Deception: Spearphishing LinkT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General

During the incident: Immediately contacting the individual who made the Public Information Act request
Offering identity protection services through MylDCareTM at no cost to the affected New Hampshire resident
Changes made: Reviewing our internal policies and procedures pertaining to responding to Public Information Act requests to prevent a similar event from occurring in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 8 weeks(56 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/north-texas-medical-20180423.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 23, 2018
Raw hash: 1453903b16319fa8a5b905d771678b2d2fe1990bb3e3f97d124b8acfe3beb4d0

Reporting entityNorth Texas Medical Center

Victim entityNorth Texas Medical Center

Incidentdiscovered Feb 26, 2018

Stated responseImmediately contacting the individual who made the Public Information Act request

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov