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Veterans Health Administration

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Full breach record for Veterans Health Administration →

Veterans Health Administration (VHA) reported to HHS on 2018-11-06 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 19,254 individuals. On August 8 and September 4, 2018, business associate Xerox Corporation erroneously printed appointment reminder cards for patients that were mailed to another patient, exposing demographic and clinical information. The BA implemented additional controls including joint CE/BA template review and a match alert notification. OCR reviewed the BA agreement, notification letters, and security measures, and obtained assurances of corrective action.

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.Confirmed19,254 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: Nov 6, 2018
Raw hash: 4b37170e66fd48ec73b25c0cc6b645eee162cc65d33f80a41fb2d4328a2d0768

Source filing

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Reporting entity

Name: Veterans Health Administration
norm: veterans health administration
Domain: va.gov
Industry: Health Care Services

Victim entity

Name: Veterans Health Administration
norm: veterans health administration
Domain: va.gov
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultGovernmentllm

Incident

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 19,254
Data types: HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access· Xerox Corporation
Threat actor: Partner
Regulator citations: OCR reviewed BA agreementOCR reviewed individual breach notification letterOCR reviewed security measures implementedOCR obtained assurances of corrective action implementation
Third party: via Xerox Corporation

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

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.