CALIFORNIAMisuseHealthcareHealthcareKnowledge AbuseBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)HighResolved

Dr. Veronica Joann Barber

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Jul 28, 2014

To disclose

—

Affected

4,000

Confidence

95%

Full breach record for Dr. Veronica Joann Barber →

Dr. Veronica Joann Barber (VB), an optometrist working at the covered entity under a space-sharing agreement, copied the CE's entire patient database on December 15, 2013, and used the ePHI to solicit patients for her own practice. The breach affected 4,000 individuals. Exposed ePHI included names, SSNs, addresses, driver's licenses, dates of birth, credit card/bank account numbers, claims information, diagnoses, medications, and treatment information. The CE terminated the agreement, issued a cease-and-desist, notified HHS and individuals, installed firewalls, completed a risk assessment, and improved physical and logical access controls. Breached info located on Network Server.

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HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified

⚠ no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.

⚠ No discovery dateThe OCR public portal omits the discovery date, so the 60-day notification clock cannot be evaluated from this source — only that the filing was submitted.

Incident timeline

Dec 15, 2013

Begins

Jul 28, 2014

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed4,000 affectedView incident

Name: Dr. Veronica Joann Barber
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Name: Dr. Veronica Joann Barber
norm: dr veronica joann barber
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Breach occurred: Dec 15, 2013
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 4,000nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: PartnerFinancial
Regulator citations: HHS OCR technical assistance provided; CE completed risk assessment and notified media per OCR guidance
Third party: via Veronica Joann Barber, O.D.
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Sent cease-and-desist request to Dr. Barber
Notified HHS and affected individuals of breach
Notified media per OCR guidance
Completed a risk assessment
Changes made: Installed computer firewalls
Denied access by unlicensed persons to computer systems
Updated policies and procedures regarding computer user names and passwords
Moved computer with ePHI behind a 5-foot tall counter (physical safeguard)
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: HHS notified
Discovery-date grounding: no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
HIPAA
Discovered: not extracted
→ Notified: not extracted
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: not extracted → Notified: not extracted	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

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: Jul 28, 2014
Raw hash: 191d471e531be407c41657dee2bc3a92ba9f0ec41b7b35a1fd33f56cef345f84

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Reporting entityDr. Veronica Joann Barber

Victim entityDr. Veronica Joann Barber

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseSent cease-and-desist request to Dr. Barber

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing