VIRGINIAPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Virginia Premier Health Plan (VPHP)

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 10, 2014

To disclose

—

Affected

25,513

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Virginia Premier Health Plan (VPHP) →

Virginia Premier Health Plan (VPHP) reported to HHS on 2014-01-10 a Theft affecting 25,513 individuals. Breached information located on Paper/Films. The business associate mailed incorrect postcards containing PHI to the wrong addresses or with incorrect service details. The BA notified HHS, media, and individuals, and implemented corrective actions including employee retraining and updated mailing procedures.

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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

Jan 10, 2014

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.Confirmed25,513 affectedView incident

Name: Virginia Premier Health Plan (VPHP)
norm: virginia premier health plan vphp
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Virginia Premier Health Plan (VPHP)
norm: virginia premier health plan vphp
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 25,513nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Theft
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified HHSOCR obtained assurances that the BA implemented the corrective action listed above
Third party: via Virginia Department of Medical Assistance Services (VA-DMAS)business associate

During the incident: Provided breach notification to HHS
Provided breach notification to the media
Provided breach notification to affected individuals in English and Spanish
Changes made: Retrained employees on safeguards for protected health information
Updated procedures for mailings
Implemented additional quality control checks
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: Jan 10, 2014
Raw hash: 91619c48b739751aed1e6dca0d2ad2c6f8bb2b7efa8f270137c127079d9f8007

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Reporting entityVirginia Premier Health Plan (VPHP)

Victim entityVirginia Premier Health Plan (VPHP)

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseProvided breach notification to HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing