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.

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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

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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.Confirmed1,842 affectedView incident

Name: Texas Health and Human Services Commission
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Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: Texas Health and Human Services Commission
norm: texas health and human services commission
Industry: Insurance — Health
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Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,842nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)
HHS breach type: Improper disposal
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: HHS OCR investigation conducted
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Internal investigation conducted
Workforce member sanctioned
All employees retrained on proper disposal of PHI
Notification provided to affected individuals and media
One year of free credit monitoring services offered to affected individuals
Changes made: Employee retraining on PHI disposal procedures
Sanctioning of responsible workforce member
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

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

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: not extracted → Notified: not extracted	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

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://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

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Reporting entityTexas Health and Human Services Commission

Victim entityTexas Health and Human Services Commission

IncidentMisconfiguration

Stated responseInternal investigation conducted

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing