WASHINGTONSocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Government IDIdentity (basic)Financial accountHighContained

Virginia Mason Medical Center

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 14, 2022

To disclose

—

Affected

2,733

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Virginia Mason Medical Center →3 incidents on file

Virginia Mason Medical Center reported to HHS on 2022-03-14 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 2733 individuals. Breached information located on Email. Employees were victims of an email phishing attack exposing PHI including names, SSNs, addresses, driver's license numbers, DOB, lab results, medications, and financial information. The entity notified HHS, individuals, and media, strengthened safeguards, and retrained staff.

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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 — partial

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Breach window unknown

Mar 14, 2022

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

This filing is one of 2 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Washington State AGbd_4421f1d2aa9847332022-02-18 · +24dCandidate

Name: Virginia Mason Medical Center
norm: virginia mason medical center
Domain: virginiamason.org
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Virginia Mason Medical Center
norm: virginia mason medical center
Domain: virginiamason.org
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 2,733nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Government IDIdentity (basic)Financial account
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: External
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Strengthened its administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Retrained its staff on email security
Changes made: Strengthened administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Retrained staff on email security
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.

Filing propagation · 2 filings

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Washington State AGFeb 18 · first

HHS OCR+24d · this page

Pattern: first filing Feb 18 (WA), last Mar 14 (WA) — a 24-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.

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: Mar 14, 2022
Raw hash: 27fc65b31643430798b01e3879961ff518a92ea308b9df4d240665405e14ab29

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityVirginia Mason Medical Center

Victim entityVirginia Mason Medical Center

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS, affected individuals, and the media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing