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CALIFORNIAPhysicalHealthcareGovernmentHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Health (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDMediumResolved

San Francisco VA Health Care System

bd_a65ee5bae0e1256c · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Nov 29, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

735

Confidence

96%
Full breach record for San Francisco VA Health Care System →

San Francisco VA Health Care System reported to HHS on 2019-11-29 a Theft affecting 735 individuals. Breached information located on Other, Paper/Films (including an unencrypted thumb drive). A business associate's employee left a bag containing PHI and an unencrypted thumb drive in a public area; the bag was stolen. PHI involved included names, phone numbers, addresses, medical diagnoses, and Social Security numbers. The BA retrained staff in response.

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

Nov 29, 2019

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.Confirmed735 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.