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Washington VA Medical Center
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Full breach record for Washington VA Medical Center →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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,193 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 1, 2021
- Raw hash
- 2e0265927a0e4d8882832947eefdc6a0c1eade5d74e2c69c5f913b5599454971
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Washington VA Medical Centernorm: washington va medical center
- Domain
- va.gov
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Washington VA Medical Centernorm: washington va medical center
- 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
- 1,193
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR notified
- Initial access
- insider_action
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
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.