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Veterans Health Administration

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 30, 2024

To disclose

—

Affected

46,677

Confidence

97%
Full breach record for Veterans Health Administration →6 incidents on file

Veterans Health Administration (VHA) reported to HHS on 2024-01-30 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 46,677 individuals. A vendor employee mailed PHI — including names and treatment information — to incorrect recipients. Breached information was located on Paper/Films. VHA notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In response, additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards were implemented, and staff were retrained on sensitive data protection requirements.

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

Jan 30, 2024

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.Confirmed46,677 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.