MASSACHUSETTSSocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

HARBOR HEALTH SERVICES, INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Aug 9, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

17,380

Confidence

98%

Full breach record for HARBOR HEALTH SERVICES, INC. →4 incidents on file

Harbor Health Services, Inc. (MA) reported to HHS OCR on 2019-08-09 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 17,380 individuals. An employee was the victim of an email phishing attack, exposing ePHI including names and treatment information stored in Email. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, provided substitute notice, and responded by strengthening administrative/technical safeguards and retraining staff on email security.

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HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified

⚠ no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.

⚠ No discovery dateThe OCR public portal omits the discovery date, so the 60-day notification clock cannot be evaluated from this source — only that the filing was submitted.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Aug 9, 2019

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed17,380 affectedView incident

Name: HARBOR HEALTH SERVICES, INC.
norm: harbor health
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: HARBOR HEALTH SERVICES, INC.
norm: harbor health
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 17,380nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 Phishing
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: HHS OCR notified
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified media
Provided substitute notice
Strengthened administrative safeguards
Strengthened technical safeguards
Retrained staff on email security
Changes made: Strengthened administrative and technical safeguards
Staff retraining on email security
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: HHS notified
Discovery-date grounding: no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
HIPAA
Discovered: not extracted
→ Notified: not extracted
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: not extracted → Notified: not extracted	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source URL: https://ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/breach/breach_report.jsf
DisclosureLens renders the full SEC/HHS filing inline below from the originating regulator’s public record (§4.5 fair report privilege).
Filed at: Aug 9, 2019
Raw hash: cb927ff6aaa3eee96781f3ad3d00f74ea62b64d45acf3269e0f1af09451d2e00

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Reporting entityHARBOR HEALTH SERVICES, INC.

Victim entityHARBOR HEALTH SERVICES, INC.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing