DisclosureLens
MISSOURIAccidentalHealthcareGovernmentHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)LowResolved

VA St. Louis Health Care System

bd_d99584a3fa388cf9 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Nov 21, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

595

Confidence

98%
Full breach record for VA St. Louis Health Care System →2 incidents on file

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.

Incident timeline — partial

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Nov 21, 2019

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.Confirmed595 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.