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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIAMisuseHealthcareGovernmentHealthcareEmail MisuseCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHighResolved

Washington VA Medical Center

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Nov 1, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

1,193

Confidence

96%
Full breach record for Washington VA Medical Center →4 incidents on file

Washington DC VA Medical Center reported to HHS on 2021-11-01 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 1,193 individuals. An employee impermissibly sent PHI — including names, diagnoses, lab results, medications, and Social Security numbers — to a personal email account. Breached information was located in Email. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, and retrained employees on HIPAA Rules.

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

Nov 1, 2021

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.Confirmed1,193 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.