Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso: 815,000 individuals, Nov 2024.

OCR classifies the incident as a hacking or IT incident, with the breached information held in a network server. Hacking/IT Incident is the type recorded on 360 of the 633 Texas filings (57%) and on 83% of all filings submitted in 2024. Network Server appears on 45% of Texas filings.

No business associate is recorded on the filing; 27% of Texas filings do involve one. At 815,000 individuals the breach is 201 times the Texas median filing of 4,055 and 204 times the national median of 4,000 across all 7,884 filings. It is one of 801 filings of 100,000 or more individuals.

As of 28 August 2026 the case is listed by HHS OCR under Cases Currently Under Investigation. OCR has not published a closing summary, so this page is limited to the fields on the filing itself; the archive entry that follows a closed investigation usually adds a short account of what was exposed and what the entity did afterwards.

Texas's breach notification statute (Tex. Bus. & Com. Code 521.053) requires notice to affected residents without unreasonable delay, no later than the 60th day after determining a breach occurred. Its attorney general threshold: 250 or more Texas residents. The HIPAA Breach Notification Rule ran alongside it: notice to affected individuals and to HHS without unreasonable delay and no later than 60 days after discovery, which is the clock that put this filing on the portal.

Multiplying 815,000 individuals by IBM's $160 customer-PII cost per record (Cost of a Data Breach 2025, the figure the site's calculator uses) gives a modelled $130M; the 2026 edition's $192 gives $156M. Both are modelled estimates with the method shown, not costs disclosed by Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso. Because the filing is above the roughly 100,000-record range in which the per-record figure is reliable, the result is an upper bound, not an estimate: fixed costs are spread across far more records at this scale.