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 March 5, 2024.
- Organization as reported
- Orlando VA Medical Center, FL
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- March 5, 2024
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 10092, row:1231)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The Orlando VA Medical Center, the covered entity (CE), reported that an employee emailed documents containing the protected health information (PHI) of 9,850 individuals to a personal email account. The PHI involved included names, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, Social Security numbers, and birthdates. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the CE provided complimentary credit monitoring services to affected individuals and obtained a court order requiring the safeguarding of PHI.