DCAccidentalHealthcareGovernmentHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedBusiness Associate (HIPAA)IDENTITY_BASICHEALTH_BASICMediumResolved
Veterans Health Administration
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Full breach record for Veterans Health Administration →Veterans Health Administration (VHA) reported to HHS on 2024-01-05 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 2,380 individuals. A business associate mailed appointment reminder letters containing PHI (names, addresses, and appointment information) to wrong recipients. Breached information located on Paper/Films. VHA notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. CE and BA implemented additional administrative safeguards 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.Confirmed2,380 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
- Jan 5, 2024
- Raw hash
- 73da1533c8873ebee7e2eae83c66e9dbdf7d4ab57ded96005aeb3025a1867437
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Veterans Health Administrationnorm: veterans health administration
- Domain
- va.gov
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Veterans Health Administrationnorm: veterans health administration
- Domain
- va.gov
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource defaultGovernmentllm
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 2,380
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICHEALTH_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- Partner
- 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.