DisclosureLens
VIRGINIAHackingHealthcareHealthcarePhishingBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHighContained

Virginia Department of Medical Assistance Services

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 31, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

6,120

Confidence

68%
Full breach record for Virginia Department of Medical Assistance Services →3 incidents on file

Virginia Department of Medical Assistance Services reported to HHS on 2020-01-31 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 6120 individuals. Breached information located on Electronic Medical Record, Network Server. Employees were victims of an email phishing scheme affecting ePHI including names, Medicaid IDs, and treatment info. CE implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards.

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

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Jan 31, 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.Confirmed6,120 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.