CALIFORNIAMisuseHealthcareHealthcareKnowledge AbuseBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedTargetedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTHEALTH_BASICHighResolved

Dr. Veronica Joann Barber

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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.

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.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed4,000 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: Jul 28, 2014
Raw hash: 191d471e531be407c41657dee2bc3a92ba9f0ec41b7b35a1fd33f56cef345f84

Source filing

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Reporting entity

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

Victim entity

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

Incident

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 4,000
Data types: IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTHEALTH_BASIC
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access· Veronica Joann Barber, O.D.
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

Compliance

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

Extraction provenance

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.