SOUTH DAKOTAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareDisposal ErrorCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHighResolved

VA Black Hills Health Care System

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Aug 4, 2015

To disclose

—

Affected

1,168

Confidence

50%

Full breach record for VA Black Hills Health Care System →

VA Black Hills Health Care System reported to HHS on 2015-08-04 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 1168 individuals. Paper records containing names, social security numbers, addresses, and dates of birth were left in an outside trash dumpster. The organization has since destroyed the records, revised its breach notification procedures, and offered credit monitoring to affected individuals.

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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

May 15, 2015

Begins

Aug 4, 2015

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,168 affectedView incident

Name: VA Black Hills Health Care System
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Industry: Health Care Services

Name: VA Black Hills Health Care System
norm: va black hills health care system
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Breach occurred: May 15, 2015 – May 17, 2015
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,168nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: OCR provided technical assistance

During the incident: Destroyed the records
Changes made: Initiated a revision of its breach notification procedure
Offered credit monitoring to the 980 veterans whose full social security numbers were potentially breached
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: Aug 4, 2015
Raw hash: c613a2c8d8552471a950f09526b694e9af87f1dd26cb058763026df3bf5409b1

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Reporting entityVA Black Hills Health Care System

Victim entityVA Black Hills Health Care System

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseDestroyed the records

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing