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TEXASAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial accountMediumResolved

Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Southwest Fort Worth

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Oct 22, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

7,478

Confidence

68%
Full breach record for Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Southwest Fort Worth →

Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Southwest Fort Worth reported to HHS on 2019-10-22 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 7478 individuals. Breached information located on Other. A program coding error in the billing system caused PHI to be sent to wrong recipients.

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 22, 2019

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed7,478 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.