VIRGINIAMisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Health (basic)Financial accountMediumResolved

Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Authority

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 10, 2017

To disclose

—

Affected

2,716

Confidence

95%

Full breach record for Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Authority →6 incidents on file

Virginia Commonwealth University Health System (VA) reported to HHS on 2017-03-10 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 2,716 individuals via Electronic Medical Records. An employee of a community physician and an employee of a contracted vendor independently accessed patient records without a legitimate business need. PHI potentially viewed included full names, home addresses, dates of birth, medical record numbers, providers, visit dates, health insurance information, and diagnostic/treatment information. No malicious intent was confirmed and no data was retained. The CE implemented additional safeguards, removed browse functionality, and minimized search results. OCR obtained assurances of corrective action.

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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

Mar 10, 2017

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2,716 affectedView incident

Name: Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Authority
norm: virginia commonwealth university health system authority
Domain: vcuhealth.org
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Authority
norm: virginia commonwealth university health system authority
Domain: vcuhealth.org
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 2,716nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Health (basic)Financial account
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Electronic medical record
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: Multiple
Regulator citations: HHS OCR notified; OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented corrective actions
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Sanctioned employees at respective employers
Obtained assurances from former employees that no information was retained
Implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards
Eliminated the option to browse records
Limited information displayed as result of a search to minimum necessary
Notified HHS, the media, and affected individuals
Changes made: Administrative safeguards enhanced
Technical safeguards enhanced
Browse-records functionality removed
Search result information minimized per minimum necessary standard
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: Mar 10, 2017
Raw hash: 14570c9388a6a62e73c01d54916103e2e8ef4ae5bf377dd646164a6a2fbb49cd

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Reporting entityVirginia Commonwealth University Health System Authority

Victim entityVirginia Commonwealth University Health System Authority

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseSanctioned employees at respective employers

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing