- State
- VA
- Covered entity type
- Business Associate
- Individuals affected
- 1,265
- Business associate present
- Yes
- Type of breach
- Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of breached information
- Electronic Medical Record
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- 9/23/2026
- Last seen in OCR export
- 9/23/2026
OCR description
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.
Change history
- 9/23/2026Added to OCR's archive list
Source: HHS OCR Breach Portal, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights about this source
Records are reproduced as published; entity names and figures are OCR's.