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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIAAccidentalHealthcareGovernmentHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Veterans Health Administration

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 13, 2025

To disclose

—

Affected

1,847

Confidence

98%
Full breach record for Veterans Health Administration →6 incidents on file

Veterans Health Administration (DC) reported to HHS on 2025-01-13 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 1,847 individuals. An employee of its business associate mailed PHI — including names, addresses, and treatment information — to wrong recipients. PHI was located on Paper/Films. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website. The BA implemented additional administrative safeguards as mitigation.

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 13, 2025

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.Confirmed1,847 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.