PENNSYLVANIAAccidentalHealthcareGovernmentHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Lebanon VA Medical Center

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 16, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

1,002

Confidence

98%

Full breach record for Lebanon VA Medical Center →

Lebanon VA Medical Center (Lebanon, PA) reported to HHS OCR on 2019-01-16 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 1,002 individuals. An employee inadvertently emailed a document containing PHI (names and clinical information) to an unintended recipient, potentially affecting 993 individuals. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. Corrective actions included restricting document access for unintended recipients and staff retraining. OCR reviewed policies and procedures and obtained assurances of compliance.

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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

Jan 16, 2019

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.Confirmed1,002 affectedView incident

Name: Lebanon VA Medical Center
norm: lebanon va medical center
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Lebanon VA Medical Center
norm: lebanon va medical center
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultGovernmentllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,002nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: OCR reviewed CE policies and procedures for Privacy and Security Rule compliance; obtained assurances of corrective action implementation.
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Breach notification provided to HHS, affected individuals, and the media.
Restricted the ability of certain documents to be opened by unintended recipients.
Retrained staff members.
Changes made: Document access restrictions implemented to prevent unintended recipients from opening sensitive files.
Staff retraining on PHI handling and email practices.
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: Jan 16, 2019
Raw hash: 099c00ddd85a8d25999aac7a07c0bcf70a814e8ec05e75774f8c9d572f3819d1

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Reporting entityLebanon VA Medical Center

Victim entityLebanon VA Medical Center

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseBreach notification provided to HHS, affected individuals, and the media.

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing