COMisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTMediumContained
VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System
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Full breach record for VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System →VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System (ECHCS) reported to HHS on 2015-04-02 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 508 individuals. Breached information located on Paper/Films. A former employee disclosed a patient waitlist to a news reporter, exposing PHI including scheduled dates, last four digits of SSNs, and clinic names. The CE provided breach notification, investigated, and offered credit monitoring.
HIPAA clockDiscovered Jan 30, 2015 → Notified Apr 2, 201562d ✗ HIPAA 60-day late9 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed508 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
- Apr 2, 2015
- Raw hash
- d7d67999ab7dc28b342ab5c459fee33bf4a58fc2a49c54b5ba888b3b511cc7f7
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- VA Eastern Colorado Health Care Systemnorm: va eastern colorado health care system
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- VA Eastern Colorado Health Care Systemnorm: va eastern colorado health care system
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Jan 30, 2015
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Apr 2, 2015
- Affected individuals
- 508
- Data types
- PHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1078 Valid Accounts
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- Notified HHSOCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions
- Initial access
- insider_action
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 9 weeks(62 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- HIPAA 60-day late · 62dHHS notified · 62d
- Discovery-date grounding
- occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status HIPAA Discovered: Jan 30, 2015→ Notified: Apr 2, 201562d 60 days HIPAA 60-day late HIPAA Discovered: Jan 30, 2015→ Notified: Apr 2, 201562d regulatory submission HHS notified
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.