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VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System
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Full breach record for VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System →VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System reported to HHS on 2016-11-08 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 2,130 individuals. A workforce member emailed a spreadsheet with veterans' PHI (names, diagnoses, last four SSN digits) to a personal email account and later published it in an Amazon book. OCR investigated and provided technical assistance. The CE notified affected individuals, offered credit monitoring, and worked with Amazon to remove the book.
HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified10 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2,130 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 8, 2016
- Raw hash
- fa361824d2c27d6d662464cb2f6b994a41d05442cd3063821c54ca33f6b15b62
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- VA Eastern Colorado Health Care Systemnorm: va eastern colorado health care system
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- VA Eastern Colorado Health Care Systemnorm: va eastern colorado health care system
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Sep 1, 2016
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 2,130
- Data types
- PHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1048 Exfiltration Over Alternative ProtocolT1567 Exfiltration Over Web Service
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- Notified HHSOCR investigated the breach and provided technical assistance regarding the 'notification to individuals' section of the Breach Notification Rule and the risk assessment process for breach notification
- Initial access
- insider_action
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 10 weeks(68 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- HHS notified
- Discovery-date grounding
- unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status HIPAA Discovered: Sep 1, 2016→ Notified: not extracted— regulatory submission HHS notified
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.