MISSOURIMisuseHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Government IDIdentity (basic)MediumContained

VA St. Louis Health Care System

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 1, 2017

To disclose

—

Affected

724

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for VA St. Louis Health Care System →2 incidents on file

VA St. Louis Health Care System reported to HHS on 2017-03-01 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 724 individuals. Breached information located on Paper/Films. A former employee improperly took home documents containing names, SSNs, and treatment information. The entity notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, and implemented additional administrative safeguards.

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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

Mar 1, 2017

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.Confirmed724 affectedView incident

Name: VA St. Louis Health Care System
norm: va st louis health care system
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: VA St. Louis Health Care System
norm: va st louis health care system
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 724nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Government IDIdentity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
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 HHS

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Provided substitute notice
Implemented additional administrative safeguards
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative safeguards to better protect its PHI
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: Mar 1, 2017
Raw hash: 90b20aa27b9d17e2473447dc9aeb26c2fd9f03f837727f2ab28b7dcfa40179a1

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Reporting entityVA St. Louis Health Care System

Victim entityVA St. Louis Health Care System

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing