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Valley Family Medicine

bd_6db25ee9c7f6c694 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Nov 3, 2017

To disclose

—

Affected

8,450

Confidence

97%
Full breach record for Valley Family Medicine →

Valley Family Medicine (VA) reported to HHS on 2017-11-03 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 8,450 individuals. Two employees took patient listing home; one used it to send postcards advertising his new practice. PHI involved: names and addresses (Paper/Films). No business associate present. CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. Post-breach: updated EHR/billing systems, adopted encryption, and conducted a risk analysis per OCR technical assistance.

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

Nov 3, 2017

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.Confirmed8,450 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.