COPhysicalHealthcareGovernmentHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTMediumResolved
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 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.
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.Confirmed649 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
- May 5, 2010
- Raw hash
- bf160d1bf7cabc53be6a726a044d97a5f97276fadd3b31146c184055b5fe496c
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
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource defaultGovernmentllm
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 649
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENT
- 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
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.