DisclosureLens
VIRGINIAMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData EncryptedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)HighResolved

INOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION

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Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Sep 9, 2020

To disclose

Affected

1,045,270

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

98%
Full breach record for INOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION6 incidents on file

Inova Health System (VA, Healthcare Provider) reported to HHS OCR on 2020-09-09 that its business associate experienced a ransomware attack on a network server affecting the ePHI of approximately 1,045,270 individuals. Exposed data included names, addresses, dates of birth, and treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice.

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

Sep 9, 2020

Filed

Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident
Part of BLACKBAUD, INC. supply-chain incident (2020) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

View merged incident ↗
Washington State AGSep 9 · first
HHS OCRSep 9 · first · this page

Pattern: first filing Sep 9 (WA), last Sep 22 (OR) — a 13-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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.