CALIFORNIAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Government IDIdentity (basic)MediumResolved

VA Northern California Health Care System

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 24, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

645

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for VA Northern California Health Care System →2 incidents on file

VA Northern California Health Care System reported to HHS on 2021-03-24 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 645 individuals. Breached information located on Paper/Films. An employee left a document containing PHI (names, SSNs, treatment info) in a public space. The CE provided credit monitoring and retrained staff.

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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

Mar 24, 2021

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed645 affectedView incident

Name: VA Northern California Health Care System
norm: va northern california health care system
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: VA Northern California Health Care System
norm: va northern california health care system
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 645nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Government IDIdentity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1530 Data from Cloud Storage
Threat actor: Internal

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Provided complimentary identity and credit monitoring services to all affected individuals
Changes made: Retrained its workforce members on the importance of safeguarding PHI
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: Mar 24, 2021
Raw hash: 371823860eab035951d34946b30a71850ee35619bff63e476d9cc6b00dfc6e09

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Reporting entityVA Northern California Health Care System

Victim entityVA Northern California Health Care System

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing