DCAccidentalHealthcareGovernmentHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedBusiness Associate (HIPAA)HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMediumResolved
Veterans Health Administration
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Full breach record for Veterans Health Administration →Veterans Health Administration (VHA) reported to HHS on 2024-01-30 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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed46,677 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 30, 2024
- Raw hash
- 82c3f80f6057fe4c08d570868f693c48b7992aaa189690792eb0a37bf2f278fe
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
- 46,677
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_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.