SOUTH CAROLINAPhysicalHealthcareGovernmentHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMediumResolved
Wm. Jennings Bryan Dorn VAMC
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Full breach record for Wm. Jennings Bryan Dorn VAMC →On February 11, 2013, a laptop was stolen from the William Jennings Bryan Dorn VAMC's Pulmonary Testing Unit in Columbia, SC. The laptop contained PHI of approximately 7,405 individuals, including names, dates of birth, and clinical information. The CE notified HHS, media, and affected individuals, offered credit monitoring, and filed reports with VA police and the VA OIG. Physical safeguards for laptops on medical devices were improved and secure-storage procedures implemented. OCR obtained assurances that all corrective actions were completed.
HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified8 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.Confirmed7,405 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 10, 2013
- Raw hash
- f8c0fbff42ff7c4a64135b4af7909c8ad6738c4e01515fe2b662beb5d96f83d6
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Wm. Jennings Bryan Dorn VAMCnorm: wm jennings bryan dorn vamc
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Wm. Jennings Bryan Dorn VAMCnorm: wm jennings bryan dorn vamc
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource defaultGovernmentllm
Incident
- Discovered
- Feb 11, 2013
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 7,405
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- OCR obtained assurances that corrective actions were completed.VA police report filed.VA Office of Inspector General (OIG) report filed.
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 8 weeks(58 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: Feb 11, 2013→ Notified: not extracted— regulatory submission HHS notified
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.