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

South Texas Veterans Health Care System

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Oct 9, 2014

To disclose

—

Affected

4,000

Confidence

69%
Full breach record for South Texas Veterans Health Care System →2 incidents on file

South Texas Veterans Health Care System reported to HHS on 2014-10-09 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 4000 individuals. Breached information located on Paper/Films. The covered entity incorrectly mailed 2,000 letters with another veteran’s protected health information (PHI) printed on the other side. The types of PHI involved in the breach included patients’ names, addresses, and medication information.

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

Oct 9, 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.Confirmed4,000 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.