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MASSACHUSETTSSocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)LowResolved

Greater New Bedford Community Health Center

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 12, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

696

Confidence

98%
Full breach record for Greater New Bedford Community Health Center →2 incidents on file

Greater New Bedford Community Health Center (MA) reported to HHS on 2021-01-12 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 696 individuals. An employee of its business associate was the victim of an email phishing scheme. The ePHI involved included names, dates of birth, phone numbers, clinical information, and treatment information. Breached information was located in Email. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice.

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 12, 2021

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.Confirmed696 affectedView incident

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.