PUERTO RICOPhysicalHealthcareGovernmentHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHighResolved

VA Caribbean Healthcare System

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

May 26, 2011

To disclose

—

Affected

6,006

Confidence

96%

Full breach record for VA Caribbean Healthcare System →

VA Caribbean Healthcare System (Puerto Rico) reported to HHS OCR on 2011-05-26 a Theft affecting 6,006 individuals. An employee left documents containing PHI in an unsecured bag at a nursing station. The PHI included names, Social Security numbers, patient care assignments, patient counts, and census lists. Upon discovery, the CE secured the PHI and notified HHS, media, and affected individuals. OCR's investigation resulted in employee discipline/retraining and new ward-rounding procedures. Breached information located on Paper/Films.

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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

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Breach window unknown

May 26, 2011

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.Confirmed6,006 affectedView incident

Name: VA Caribbean Healthcare System
norm: va caribbean healthcare system
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: VA Caribbean Healthcare System
norm: va caribbean healthcare system
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultGovernmentllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 6,006nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Theft
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: OCR investigation conducted; employee disciplined and retrained; procedural changes mandated by OCR
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Breach notification sent to HHS
Breach notification sent to media
Breach notification sent to affected individuals
Changes made: CE secured the PHI upon discovery
Employee disciplined and retrained
Implemented procedure requiring nursing leadership to conduct rounds on wards once vacated
All staff retrained on privacy and security policies and procedures
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

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

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: not extracted → Notified: not extracted	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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.

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: May 26, 2011
Raw hash: ff342edfc7e4d8cbf53f933acddaeaa11f37a559321a55d884dd9418148441c6

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Reporting entityVA Caribbean Healthcare System

Victim entityVA Caribbean Healthcare System

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseBreach notification sent to HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing