COLORADOPhysicalHealthcareGovernmentHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDMediumResolved

VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

May 5, 2010

To disclose

—

Affected

649

Confidence

97%

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

VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System reported to HHS OCR on 2010-05-05 a Theft affecting 649 individuals. A CE employee placed paper records containing PHI in an unsecured box left in a public parking garage for four days. PHI included treatment records, productivity reports, coding information, names, medical treatments, conditions, diagnoses, and SSNs. The CE notified affected individuals, provided credit protection for SSN exposure, and improved breach response procedures. The responsible employee resigned following OCR's investigation.

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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

May 5, 2010

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed649 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: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultGovernmentllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 649nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Theft
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: HHS OCR investigation conducted; CE provided breach prevention policies and procedures.
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Notified affected individuals.
Provided credit protection to individuals whose SSNs were breached.
Employee who left the records resigned following OCR investigation.
CE improved breach response procedures.
Changes made: Submitted copies of breach prevention policies and procedures to OCR.
Improved breach response procedures.
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

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

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: not extracted → Notified: not extracted	—	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: May 5, 2010
Raw hash: bf160d1bf7cabc53be6a726a044d97a5f97276fadd3b31146c184055b5fe496c

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Reporting entityVA Eastern Colorado Health Care System

Victim entityVA Eastern Colorado Health Care System

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified affected individuals.

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing