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NEVADAAccidentalHealthcareGovernmentHealthcareMisconfigurationCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)LowResolved

VA Sierra Nevada Health Care System

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 25, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

702

Confidence

96%
Full breach record for VA Sierra Nevada Health Care System →

VA Sierra Nevada Health Care System (NV) reported to HHS on 2020-03-25 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 702 individuals. Numerous boxes containing unsecured PHI were discovered in an unlocked office. Breached information was located on Paper/Films. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, and conducted an executive leadership meeting to address records management requirements for securing and storing PHI.

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

Mar 25, 2020

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.Confirmed702 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.