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HHS OCRState AGConfirmed5 filings · 5 statesLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedhigh sensitivity
Merged incident · 5 filings

Hill Country Memorial Hospital — February 2017 breach

Clustered 5 filings across 5 jurisdictions · filing window Apr 21, 2017 May 22, 2017. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →

1 cross-filing discrepancyMerge100%

Determination

Confirmed

Members

5 filings

States

5

Affected · reported

8,449

First → last filing

Apr 21, 2017 May 22, 2017

Merge confidence

100%

incident inc_7967c7d08bdb46be · merged by deterministic · confidence 100%

Confirmed breach. Merged as one breach: 5 regulatory filings. Intrusion Feb 21, 2017, discovered Feb 21, 2017 — the first regulatory filing landed 59 days later. 8,449 individuals reported across the linked filings. Data reported: Government ID, Health (basic), Identity (basic), and 3 more. Notifications rolled out on a 31-day schedule across 5 filings beginning Apr 21, 2017. Each member filing remains the legal record for its jurisdiction.

Litigation Timing

Notification delay
59days

Discovered → first regulatory filing

Discovery variance
0days

Range of discovered_at dates across filings

Filing span
31days

Time between earliest and latest filing

Not recorded for this incident

Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delayno leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster.

Regulatory clocksHIPAA HHS report on timeFull clock table in Litigation Timeline

Sensitive data

identity_government

Incident timeline

Feb 21, 2017breach begins
Feb 21, 2017discovered
notification delay · 59 days
Apr 21, 2017first filing
May 22, 2017most recent filing

Dashed segments are unestablished, not zero — they fill in as filings merge into this incident.

Member cascade — every filing about this breach

  1. APR 21HHS OCRHHS OCR noticefirst filing · states nationwide total 8,449day 0
  2. APR 25NH AGNH AG noticestates nationwide total 8,449+4d
  3. APR 25MT AGMT AG notice3 MT residents+4d
  4. MAY 2MA AGMA AG notice3 MA residents+11d
  5. MAY 22SC AGSC AG noticemost recent · 3 SC residents+31d
  6. Watching for additional filings — new sources merge into this incident automatically.

Roll-up facts — reconciled across members

Breach window
Feb 21, 2017
HHS OCR
Discovered
Feb 21, 2017
HHS OCR + MT AG + SC AG
Data types
Financial account · Health (basic) · Identity (basic) · Government ID · PHI · PII
HHS OCR + NH AG + SC AG +2
Attack vector
Unauthorized Access
HHS OCR

Each fact cites the member filing that establishes it; when filings conflict, every value shows with its source.

Count reconciliation

per-state reported counts

Nationwide (stated in a filing)

8,449

Sum of filed state slices

11· 0.1% of stated

100% of the stated total lives in states whose filings carry no count — the dashed share shrinks as filings land.

US8,449
MT3
MA3
SC3
NH2

State AGs report only their own residents; teal bars show each state's reported slice. The gray US row is the nationwide total reported in a linked filing.

Evidence ladder — rungs this incident occupies

Leak-site claim

No leak-site claim on record for this incident.

Press / market report

No press coverage linked yet.

State AG / regulator filing5 members

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

No SEC filing or victim statement yet.

Merge provenance

Method
deterministic
Confidence
1.00 · above the 0.85 auto-merge floor
Audit
Every link edge records its method, confidence and model + prompt versions (100% is the strongest edge).

Merges are reversible — a wrong link can be detached with its audit trail intact. How merging works.

Filing velocity

Spread

31 days

Cadence

~1 / 7.8d

vs. multi-state median

3.9× slower

About this clustering

DisclosureLens links filings into incidents through layered matchers: deterministic rules (same source document, multistate filings of one breach, tight-window same-victim pairs), a weighted-similarity scorer for cross-source candidates, and an operator review queue for everything uncertain. Each link records its own method and confidence — shown per filing in the timeline below. The system defaults to NOT merging when uncertain, because a false merge (collapsing two unrelated breaches) is more harmful than a false split (showing related filings separately); uncertain pairs route to human review instead of auto-merging. This page states only what the linked filings agree on; each filing's own account stays on its own record, linked from the timeline below.

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