HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) Primary notice
Posted on the HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal with a submission date of May 20, 2022.
- Organization as reported
- Health Care Administrative Services, VA
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Desktop Computer, Electronic Medical Record, Email, Network Server, Paper/Films
- Submission date
- May 20, 2022
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 11444, row:2583)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The business associate (BA), Health Care Administrative Services, reported that one of its employees removed the protected health information (PHI) of 500 individuals from its computer systems. The PHI involved included names, Social Security and drivers’ license numbers, addresses, dates of birth, diagnoses, medications prescribed, and financial information. The BA notified HHS and affected individuals. In response to the breach, the BA strengthened its administrative and technical safeguards to better protect its sensitive data.