TEXASAccidentalHealthcareGovernmentHealthcareDisposal ErrorCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTHEALTH_BASICHighResolved
Texas Health and Human Services Commission
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Full breach record for Texas Health and Human Services Commission →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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,842 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
- Jun 15, 2017
- Raw hash
- d5919f8c45428b4e8f580b9e7a19fbf437743c9c307e3404f0362e130eb3100f
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Texas Health and Human Services Commissionnorm: texas health and human services commission
- Industry
- Insurance — Health
Victim entity
- Name
- Texas Health and Human Services Commissionnorm: texas health and human services commission
- Industry
- Insurance — Health
- Industry
- Healthcaresource defaultGovernmentllm
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 1,842
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTHEALTH_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Misconfiguration
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR investigation conducted
- Initial access
- insider_action
Compliance
- Compliance flags
- HHS notified
- Discovery-date grounding
- no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status HIPAA Discovered: not extracted→ Notified: not extracted— regulatory submission HHS notified
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.