CALIFORNIAMisuseHealthcareGovernmentHealthcarePrivilege AbuseCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHighResolved
VA Long Beach Healthcare System
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Full breach record for VA Long Beach Healthcare System →VA Long Beach Healthcare System (CA) reported to HHS on 2018-06-22 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 1,030 individuals. During a traffic stop on April 12, 2018, police discovered a CE workforce member had unlawfully taken medical folders containing PHI — names, addresses, dates of birth, SSNs, and clinical information — from patients. The employee was terminated. Breached information was on Paper/Films. OCR obtained assurances of corrective actions.
HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified10 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,030 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/breach/breach_report.jsf
DisclosureLens renders the full SEC/HHS filing inline below from the originating regulator’s public record (§4.5 fair report privilege).
- Filed at
- Jun 22, 2018
- Raw hash
- cd4d58ef697589303839a24c8e15bb5b660dfecd3cc9ff62d86e35ac2344f14a
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- VA Long Beach Healthcare Systemnorm: va long beach healthcare system
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- VA Long Beach Healthcare Systemnorm: va long beach healthcare system
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource defaultGovernmentllm
Incident
- Discovered
- Apr 12, 2018
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 1,030
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1078 Valid Accounts
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- OCR obtained assurances that corrective actions were implemented
- Initial access
- insider_action
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 10 weeks(71 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- HHS notified
- Discovery-date grounding
- occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status HIPAA Discovered: Apr 12, 2018→ Notified: not extracted— regulatory submission HHS notified
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.