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VIRGINIAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)LowContained

Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 20, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

657

Confidence

68%
Full breach record for Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services →4 incidents on file

Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services reported to HHS on 2020-03-20 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 657 individuals. Breached information located on Email. An employee inadvertently emailed ePHI (names, member IDs, clinical info) to the wrong recipient. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, and revised policies and procedures.

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 20, 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.Confirmed657 affectedView incident

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.