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Breach notice filed by Inova Health System (November 2018)

Organization named: Inova Health System Provisional: identity as filed, not yet matched to the directory
Type as the source lists it: Hacking/IT Incident

What the sources say

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 Nov. 19, 2018.

Organization as reported
Inova Health System, VA
Entity type as reported
Business Associate
Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information as reported
Electronic Medical Record
Submission date
Nov. 19, 2018
Observed by BreachRecords
2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13624, row:4763)
Archived copy
Held in the private archive (provenance)

The covered entity (CE), Valley Health System, reported that its business associate (BA), Inova Health System, experienced a cyber-attack that affected the protected health information (PHI) of approximately 13,596 individuals. The PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, medical record numbers, and patient identification numbers. The BA notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website. The CE also notified HHS. In its mitigation efforts, the BA implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect PHI, and retrained its staff.

The source's own words, from the revision above.

Figures, per source

  • 1,265 individuals affected (total reported), according to the HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal, source date Nov. 19, 2018, revision observed 2026-10-18.

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Timeline

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  • Submission date (HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal)
  • Observed by BreachRecords (revision 13624)
  • Approved by a reviewer

Organizations linked by a reviewer

  • Inova Health System Named as a service provider Provisional: identity as filed, not yet matched to the directory Linked 2026-10-19, method provisional.

Archived evidence

  • 3dbc27dd5742e041cc1e7fe18cc669e2901fbd3b86b7007ed27948ff4d406e1f
    text/csv, 5,530,996 bytes, retrieved from HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal, 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC. Archived privately · Provenance · Source page

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