IOWAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareProgramming ErrorBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

VGM HOMELINK's Home Page

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 18, 2014

To disclose

—

Affected

1,400

Confidence

69%

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VGM Homelink reported to HHS on 2014-04-18 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 1400 individuals. Breached information located on Paper/Films. A business associate, Tri State Adjustments, committed a programming error resulting in patients receiving wrong billing statements. Data included names, addresses, insurance info, and medical equipment details. The CE notified HHS, individuals, and the media, and required the BA to implement safeguards and update policies.

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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

Apr 18, 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.Confirmed1,400 affectedView incident

Name: VGM Homelink
norm: vgm homelink
Domain: vgm.com
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: VGM HOMELINK's Home Page
norm: vgm homelink s home page
Domain: vgmhomelink.com
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,400nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified HHSOCR investigation conducted
Third party: via Tri State Adjustmentsbusiness associate

During the incident: Provided breach notification to HHS
Provided breach notification to affected individuals
Placed a notification about the breach on its website
Required its BA to implement new safeguards to prevent a similar breach from occurring
Had its BA update its policy and procedures for Breach Rule notification
Changes made: BA updated its policy and procedures for Breach Rule notification
BA implemented new safeguards
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

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

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: not extracted → Notified: not extracted	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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.

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: Apr 18, 2014
Raw hash: 5fa727047216e829146d23d0c296741980bb0796d92ee0d85bc27aa007bfeda3

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Reporting entityVGM Homelink

Victim entityVGM HOMELINK's Home Page

IncidentMisconfiguration

Stated responseProvided breach notification to HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing