DisclosureLens
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIAHackingHealthcareHealthcareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHighContained

Veterans Health Administration

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Sep 14, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

44,308

Confidence

69%
Full breach record for Veterans Health Administration →6 incidents on file

Veterans Health Administration reported to HHS on 2020-09-14 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 44308 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server. The cyber-attack affected electronic protected health information (ePHI) including names, Social Security numbers, and clinical information. The entity notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, provided complimentary credit monitoring, and implemented additional technical safeguards.

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 — partial

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Breach window unknown

Sep 14, 2020

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed44,308 affectedView incident

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.