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 June 9, 2025.
- Organization as reported
- Sentara Health, VA
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Electronic Medical Record
- Submission date
- June 9, 2025
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 9276, row:415)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Sentara Health, reported a breach after it discovered that two remote workforce members processing their lab requisitions were not the persons the CE hired to do the work. The breach affected the protected health information (PHI) of 13,278 individuals. The PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and lab results. The CE notified HHS, the affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. In response to the breach, the CE provided complimentary credit monitoring services to the affected individuals and implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect PHI.