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VIRGINIAMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Data EncryptedRansom DemandedCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Virginia Hospital Center Health System

bd_44dbea1526868ea6 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Oct 31, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

23,846

Confidence

97%
Full breach record for Virginia Hospital Center Health System →

Virginia Hospital Center Health System (VA) reported to HHS OCR on 2020-10-31 that its business associate experienced a ransomware attack affecting the ePHI of approximately 23,846 individuals. Breached information was located on a Network Server. The ePHI involved included names, addresses, and dates of birth. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice.

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 31, 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.Confirmed23,846 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.