Texas Tech Health Sciences Center reports hacking incident affecting 650,000 records
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, a healthcare provider in Texas, filed a breach report with HHS OCR on November 25, 2024. The filing describes a hacking/IT incident that compromised data stored on a network server. The breach potentially affected 650,000 individuals. This submission date marks when the report was sent to regulators, not necessarily when the incident occurred or was discovered. Healthcare administrators should monitor such large-scale incidents to understand evolving threat vectors, though no specific remediation steps are detailed in this filing.
Sources differ:
- The HHS filing for the Lubbock campus lists 650,000 people; the HIPAA Journal reports that the breach affected a total of 1.46 million patients when including the El Paso campus.