{"id":64308,"date":"2025-11-25T12:48:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T12:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/64308\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T12:48:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T12:48:23","slug":"metrocare-data-breach-impacts-8600-clients-in-dallas-county-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/64308\/","title":{"rendered":"Metrocare data breach impacts 8,600 clients in Dallas County \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the county\u2019s largest mental health service providers says the protected health information of some clients was shared without authorization.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.metrocareservices.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Metrocare Services<\/a> reported that nearly 8,600 clients may have been affected.<\/p>\n<p>The company said the issue began Sept. 9 when an employee sent an encrypted email from a work account to their personal email address, which was later shared on an unauthorized network.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We thoroughly investigated this incident and worked with the employee to ensure the email was deleted from the inbox and the trash folders,&#8221; Metrocare said. &#8220;There is no evidence that the personal health information shared was used in any way by anyone other than the one individual authorized to have the information.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The email contained client information, including first and last names, medical record details such as record numbers, appointment times, doctors&#8217; names, and the dates, durations, and costs of services.<\/p>\n<p>Metrocare said they are the largest provider of mental health, developmental disability and permanent supported housing services in Dallas County, serving more than 50,000 children, teens and adults<br \/>annually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the county\u2019s largest mental health service providers says the protected health information of some clients was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,2125],"class_list":["post-64308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-mental-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}