RHODE ISLANDPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareLossCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumContained

CVS Pharmacy, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jul 24, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

26,234

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for CVS Pharmacy, Inc. →9 incidents on file

CVS Pharmacy reported to HHS on 2020-07-24 a Loss affecting 26,234 individuals. Breached information located on Paper/Films. The incident involved vandalism at CVS stores resulting in the tampering or removal of Protected Health Information (PHI), including names, addresses, dates of birth, and clinical medication data. CVS implemented additional safeguards and provided substitute notes to affected individuals.

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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

Jul 24, 2020

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.Confirmed26,234 affectedView incident

Name: CVS Pharmacy, Inc.
norm: cvs pharmacy
Domain: cvs.com
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: CVS Pharmacy, Inc.
norm: cvs pharmacy
Domain: cvs.com
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 26,234nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Loss
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: Notified HHS

During the incident: Assembled a response team to investigate and restore operations
Provided its pharmacy teams with additional guidance and recommendations for securing PHI that had been tampered or removed
Notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute note
Changes made: Implemented additional physical, administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its PHI
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: Jul 24, 2020
Raw hash: 2f3dff43c933244d1888aa9286417323df46a4268f76caa1f1a8b15720b933c3

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Reporting entityCVS Pharmacy, Inc.

Victim entityCVS Pharmacy, Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseAssembled a response team to investigate and restore operations

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing