Health Data Breach Tracker/VA

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Inova Health System

12,331 individuals · submitted November 2, 2018

About this report

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.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Inova Health System
State
VA
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
12,331
Submission date
November 2, 2018
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Electronic Medical Record, Paper/Films
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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