FLORIDAPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDMediumResolved

Miami VA Healthcare System

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

May 5, 2010

To disclose

—

Affected

568

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Miami VA Healthcare System →

Miami VA Healthcare System reported to HHS on 2010-05-05 a Theft affecting 568 individuals. Breached information located on Paper/Films. A pharmacy log book containing PHI (names and partial SSNs) was misplaced and never recovered.

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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.Confirmed568 affectedView incident

Name: Miami VA Healthcare System
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Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Miami VA Healthcare System
norm: miami va healthcare system
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 568nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (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: OCR investigation

During the incident: Provided breach notification as required by the HIPAA Breach Notification Rule
Instructed employees to cease the practice of keeping log books
Revised and/or updated its policies and procedures with respect to safeguarding PHI
Established a written employee agreement
Implemented an employee authorization process
Established safeguards
Provided training to all staff in the pharmacy department regarding the use of logbooks
Accounted for the disclosures in each of the affected individuals' accounting log
Changes made: Revised and/or updated its policies and procedures with respect to safeguarding PHI
Established a written employee agreement
Implemented an employee authorization process
Established safeguards
Provided training to all staff in the pharmacy department regarding the use of logbooks
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: ad5e4f450f2450ab2d4a39c44b3cb280b6c54ba0f7c086faf3b1e7b69c68a3b6

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Reporting entityMiami VA Healthcare System

Victim entityMiami VA Healthcare System

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseProvided breach notification as required by the HIPAA Breach Notification Rule

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing