COLORADOMisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Government IDMediumContained

VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 30, 2015

Filed

Apr 2, 2015

To disclose

9 weeks

Affected

508

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System →3 incidents on file

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.

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HIPAA clockDiscovered Jan 30, 2015 → Notified Apr 2, 2015✓ HHS notified9 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.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 9 weeks / 62 days

Jan 30, 2015

Begins

Jan 30, 2015

Discovered

Apr 2, 2015

Filed

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Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed508 affectedView incident

Name: VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System
norm: va eastern colorado health care system
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System
norm: va eastern colorado health care system
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Jan 30, 2015
Breach occurred: Jan 30, 2015
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 2, 2015
Affected individuals: 508nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
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

During the incident: Provided breach notification to affected individuals
Provided breach notification to the media
Provided breach notification to HHS
Investigated the incident
Provided affected individuals with credit monitoring information
Changes made: Implemented corrective actions (assured by OCR)
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 9 weeks(62 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: HHS notified
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, 2015
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: Jan 30, 2015 → Notified: Apr 2, 2015	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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.

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

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Reporting entityVA Eastern Colorado Health Care System

Victim entityVA Eastern Colorado Health Care System

Incidentdiscovered Jan 30, 2015

Stated responseProvided breach notification to affected individuals

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing