PRPhysicalHealthcareGovernmentHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHighResolved
VA Caribbean Healthcare System
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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.
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.Confirmed6,006 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
- May 26, 2011
- Raw hash
- ff342edfc7e4d8cbf53f933acddaeaa11f37a559321a55d884dd9418148441c6
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- VA Caribbean Healthcare Systemnorm: va caribbean healthcare system
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- VA Caribbean Healthcare Systemnorm: va caribbean healthcare system
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource defaultGovernmentllm
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 6,006
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENT
- 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
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.