type: incident · created: 2026-09-07 · updated: 2026-09-07 · tags: [incident, healthcare, data-breach, united-states, patient-data] · confidence: high · severity: medium · affected_sectors: [healthcare] · au_impact: false
Resource Center of Dallas Notifies 12,500 Patients About Cyber Incident
Resource Center of Dallas, an organisation providing health, wellness and advocacy services to the LGBTQIA+ community in North Texas, is notifying 12,490 individuals about a data security incident discovered earlier this year.
Summary
Third-party cybersecurity professionals engaged to investigate suspicious network activity determined that certain personal and health-related information was accessed without authorisation; the organisation said it has taken steps to secure its systems and is offering affected individuals monitoring support. The incident was disclosed alongside breaches at several other US providers, continuing the steady cadence of US healthcare breach notifications.
Impact
- Personal and health-related data of approximately 12,490 individuals accessed without authorisation
- Affected individuals offered monitoring support
- Part of an ongoing cluster of US healthcare breach disclosures
Sector
Healthcare
Sources
- HIPAA Journal — Resource Center of Dallas Notifies 12,500 Patients About Cyber Incident
- raw/digests/Cyber-Digest-2026-09-07.md