VAMisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseCustomer Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTMediumResolved
VCU Health System
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Full breach record for VCU Health System →VCU Health System (VA) reported to HHS on 2018-07-06 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 4,686 individuals. From January 3, 2003, through May 10, 2018, a staff member accessed PHI without a legitimate business reason; two other employees were aware but did not report it. Breached information, located in Electronic Medical Records, included demographic, financial, and clinical data. All three employees were terminated. OCR obtained assurances of workforce-wide retraining.
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.Confirmed4,686 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
- Jul 6, 2018
- Raw hash
- 121d0027b7f17caa87fb12b64c4708be9bd16f0adab04f88cff277d30b5e17c3
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- VCU Health Systemnorm: vcu health system
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- VCU Health Systemnorm: vcu health system
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 4,686
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- OCR obtained assurances that the CE retrained its entire workforce on its policies and procedures.
- Initial access
- insider_action
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.