MASSACHUSETTSSocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumContained

Brockton Hospital, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 3, 2022

To disclose

—

Affected

73,022

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Brockton Hospital, Inc. →

Brockton Hospital, Inc. d/b/a Signature Healthcare Brockton Hospital reported to HHS on 2022-01-03 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 73,022 individuals. Breached information located on Email. Employees were victims of an email phishing scheme exposing PHI including names, DOB, diagnoses, medications, lab results, and claims.

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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

Jan 3, 2022

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.Confirmed73,022 affectedView incident

Name: Brockton Hospital, Inc.
norm: brockton hospital
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Brockton Hospital, Inc.
norm: brockton hospital
Also named: Brockton Hospital, Inc.dba oflegal entity
Signature Healthcare Brockton Hospitaldba oftrade name
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 73,022nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (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: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified HHS
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Provided substitute notice
Strengthened its administrative and technical safeguards
Retrained its staff on email security
Changes made: Strengthened its administrative and technical safeguards
Retrained its staff 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: Jan 3, 2022
Raw hash: 84ad3d8114fb5bb4085080c22dc6d269747e491968bc22fc3dbe689d68b0bdc8

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Reporting entityBrockton Hospital, Inc.

Victim entityBrockton Hospital, Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing