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TEXASAccidentalHealthcareGovernmentHealthcareDisposal ErrorCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)HighResolved

Texas Health and Human Services Commission

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Jun 15, 2017

To disclose

—

Affected

1,842

Confidence

98%
Full breach record for Texas Health and Human Services Commission →6 incidents on file

Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) reported to HHS OCR on 2017-06-15 an Improper Disposal breach affecting 1,842 individuals. A workforce member improperly discarded several boxes of PHI into a public dumpster. Not all boxes were retrieved. PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, financial information, and treatment information. HHSC sanctioned the employee, retrained all staff on PHI disposal, notified affected individuals and media, and offered one year of free credit monitoring.

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

Jun 15, 2017

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.Confirmed1,842 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.