One linked filing — more sources may join as they report · filed Apr 17, 2020. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →
incident inc_e62a83c4e4654be3 · merge_method deterministic
Not recorded for this incident
Discovery variance · Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delay · Filing span — no leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster; needs two dated filings.
PHI · Health (basic) · Identity (basic)
TX
all HHS OCR
Earliest sighting first · deep chronology in Litigation Timeline
Houston Methodist Hospital reported to HHS on 2020-04-17 a Theft affecting 1987 individuals. Breached information located on Other Portable Electronic Device. The incident involved the burglary of external storage drives containing ePHI (names, DOB, treatment info) belonging to a business associate employee.
Affected (this filing): 1,987
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. Filing summaries shown in the timeline are AI-generated extracts — verify each against its linked source.