One linked filing — more sources may join as they report · filed Mar 24, 2021. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →
incident inc_374af7b42efa47fb · merge_method deterministic
Not recorded for this incident
Discovery variance · Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delay · Filing span — no leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster; needs two dated filings.
PHI · Health (basic) · Government ID
CA
all HHS OCR
Earliest sighting first · deep chronology in Litigation Timeline
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.
Affected (this filing): 645
About this clustering
DisclosureLens links filings into incidents through layered matchers: deterministic rules (same source document, multistate filings of one breach, tight-window same-victim pairs), a weighted-similarity scorer for cross-source candidates, and an operator review queue for everything uncertain. Each link records its own method and confidence — shown per filing in the timeline below. The system defaults to NOT merging when uncertain, because a false merge (collapsing two unrelated breaches) is more harmful than a false split (showing related filings separately); uncertain pairs route to human review instead of auto-merging. Filing summaries shown in the timeline are AI-generated extracts — verify each against its linked source.