VIRGINIAHackingHealthcareHealthcareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Health (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDEmploymentCriticalResolved

Virginia Department of Medical Assistance Services

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Severity

Critical

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 12, 2015

To disclose

—

Affected

697,586

Confidence

50%

Full breach record for Virginia Department of Medical Assistance Services →3 incidents on file

Virginia Department of Medical Assistance Services (VA-DMAS) reported a breach to HHS on March 12, 2015, affecting 697,586 individuals. The breach was a Hacking/IT Incident that occurred at its business associate, Healthkeepers, due to a series of cyberattacks on its parent company, Anthem, Inc. The exposed information included names, Social Security numbers, medical identification numbers, addresses, dates of birth, email addresses, and employment information. OCR opened a separate review of Anthem, resulting in a monetary settlement and a corrective action plan.

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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 12, 2015

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.Confirmed697,586 affectedView incident

Name: Virginia Department of Medical Assistance Services
norm: virginia department of medical assistance
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: Virginia Department of Medical Assistance Services
norm: virginia department of medical assistance
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 697,586nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDEmployment
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Health planBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Partner
Regulator citations: OCR reviewed the business associate agreement.OCR opened a separate review of the business associate's parent company, Anthem.Anthem agreed to pay a monetary settlement.Anthem undertook a corrective action plan to comply with HIPAA Rules.

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 12, 2015
Raw hash: bc8f1427dfa6d9238420ae54a467632bacf19aa9a1d2d3943d069ca40ee5bc06

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Reporting entityVirginia Department of Medical Assistance Services

Victim entityVirginia Department of Medical Assistance Services

IncidentUnauthorized Access

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing