OREGONPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHighResolved

Portland VA Medical Center

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Oct 29, 2014

To disclose

—

Affected

1,740

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Portland VA Medical Center →

Portland VA Medical Center reported to HHS on 2014-10-29 a Theft affecting 1740 individuals. Breached information located on Paper/Films. An employee took home paper lists of patient PHI to work on over the weekend and forgot to return them. The employee's husband found the lists in their garage six months later.

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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 — partial

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Breach window unknown

Oct 29, 2014

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.Confirmed1,740 affectedView incident

Name: Portland VA Medical Center
norm: portland va medical center
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Portland VA Medical Center
norm: portland va medical center
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,740nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Theft
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified HHSOCR investigation confirmed corrective action steps

During the incident: Retrained the employee who took the lists home
Provided breach notification to HHS, the media, and affected individuals
Offered free credit monitoring for a year
Changes made: Retrained the employee
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: Oct 29, 2014
Raw hash: ea79987b711227b25ff69651dd9ff50a02de390df891ecdccd60aaf1521fbe1e

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Reporting entityPortland VA Medical Center

Victim entityPortland VA Medical Center

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseRetrained the employee who took the lists home

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing