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Breach notice filed by San Francisco VA Health Care System (November 2019)

Organization named: San Francisco VA Health Care System Provisional: identity as filed, not yet matched to the directory
Type as the source lists it: Theft

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. 29, 2019.

Organization as reported
San Francisco VA Health Care System, CA
Entity type as reported
Healthcare Provider
Category as reported
Theft
Location of information as reported
Other, Paper/Films
Submission date
Nov. 29, 2019
Observed by BreachRecords
2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 13114, row:4253)
Archived copy
Held in the private archive (provenance)

The San Francisco VA Healthcare System, the covered entity (CE), reported that an employee of its business associate (BA) left a bag containing protected health information (PHI) and an unencrypted thumb drive in a public area. The bag was stolen. This breach affected the PHI of 941 individuals. The PHI involved included names, phone numbers, addresses, medical diagnoses, and Social Security numbers. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In response to the breach incident, the BA retrained its staff on the proper methods of securing protected health information.

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

Figures, per source

  • 735 individuals affected (total reported), according to the HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal, source date Nov. 29, 2019, 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 13114)
  • Approved by a reviewer

Organizations linked by a reviewer

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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