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.
Regulatory clocksHIPAA✓ HHS notifiedFull clock table in Litigation Timeline
HHS OCRConfirmedLifecycle stage 2 of 3: ConfirmedUnverified claimConfirmedEnforcedhigh sensitivity
Affected (total reported)
3,311
Data types
4
PHI · Health (basic) · Identity (basic)
Jurisdictions
1
TX
Linked filings
1
all HHS OCR
Sensitive data
identity_government
Timeline
Earliest sighting first · deep chronology in Litigation Timeline
Dr. Robert Carpenter reported to HHS on 2018-10-07 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 3,311 individuals. The breach involved a ransomware attack on a Network Server, exposing ePHI including names, addresses, DOBs, SSNs, and clinical diagnoses. The CE implemented new safeguards and retrained staff.
Affected (this filing): 3,311
HHS notified
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.