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VIRGINIAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumContained

INOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION

bd_4e1cff8768c98ea8 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Jan 22, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

1,680

Confidence

69%
Full breach record for INOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION →6 incidents on file

Inova Health System reported to HHS on 2021-01-22 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 1680 individuals. Breached information located on Email. An employee inadvertently emailed PHI (names, DOB, diagnoses, medications) to the wrong recipient. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, established a call center, sanctioned the employee, and retrained staff.

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

Jan 22, 2021

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,680 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.