MOAccidentalHealthcareGovernmentHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICLowResolved
VA St. Louis Health Care System
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Full breach record for VA St. Louis Health Care System →VA St. Louis Health Care System (MO) reported to HHS on 2019-11-21 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 595 individuals. An employee mistakenly mailed letters containing PHI — including names, addresses, and treatment information — to wrong recipients. Breached information located on Paper/Films. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and media, and responded by retraining the responsible employee and implementing new mail procedures.
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.Confirmed595 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 21, 2019
- Raw hash
- 83b1406aba94c18ada32abe0a5703318c5a7d3a6f013d305757f7a9d1098074d
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- VA St. Louis Health Care Systemnorm: va st louis health care system
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- VA St. Louis Health Care Systemnorm: va st louis health care system
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource defaultGovernmentllm
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 595
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- Notified HHS
- 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.