DisclosureLens
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIAMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedRansom DemandedData EncryptedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHigh

Veterans Health Administration

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 3, 2024

To disclose

—

Affected

2,302

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Veterans Health Administration →6 incidents on file

Veterans Health Administration reported to HHS on 2024-12-03 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 2302 individuals, which was the result of a ransomware attack on a business associate. The breach compromised names, Social Security numbers, and medical information located on a network server.

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

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Dec 3, 2024

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.Confirmed2,302 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.