CALIFORNIAPhysicalHealthcareGovernmentHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedBusiness Associate (HIPAA)HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTMediumResolved
San Francisco VA Health Care System
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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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed735 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- 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
- Nov 29, 2019
- Raw hash
- 560c46e0fce7a870dceac1adfe445797ebeafe590d7077fd33010ce534d04fea
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- San Francisco VA Health Care Systemnorm: san francisco va health care system
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- San Francisco VA Health Care Systemnorm: san francisco va health care system
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource defaultGovernmentllm
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 735
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR notified
Compliance
- 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
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.