DCAccidentalHealthcareGovernmentHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMediumResolved
Veterans Health Administration
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Full breach record for Veterans Health Administration →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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,847 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- 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 13, 2025
- Raw hash
- e4898a62b305056a420135788fa021adb17a44c3124f64bdf5647dae20c4851a
Source filing
AI-assisted summary above. The structured extract on this page was generated from the document below. Inspect the source to verify or correct any field.
Reporting entity
- Name
- Veterans Health Administrationnorm: veterans health administration
- Domain
- va.gov
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Veterans Health Administrationnorm: veterans health administration
- Domain
- va.gov
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource defaultGovernmentllm
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 1,847
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- Partner
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR notified
Compliance
- 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
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.