MASSACHUSETTSSocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDCriticalContained

UMass Memorial Health Care, Inc.

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Severity

Critical

Discovered

—

Filed

Oct 15, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

209,048

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for UMass Memorial Health Care, Inc. →9 incidents on file

UMass Memorial Health Care, Inc. reported to HHS on 2021-10-15 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 209,048 individuals. Breached information located on Email. An employee was the subject of an email phishing scheme affecting PHI including names, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers.

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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

Oct 15, 2021

Filed

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Corroborated · see linked filings

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

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Maine State AGbd_0aefe14a3374d53a2021-10-15Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_14a41c3ebe9a54812021-10-15Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_28661c8ab6fb77e52021-10-15Verified

Name: UMass Memorial Health Care, Inc.
norm: umass memorial health care
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: UMass Memorial Health Care, Inc.
norm: umass memorial health care
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 209,048nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified HHS
Third party: via UMass Memorial Health Care, Inc.business associate
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Posted substitute notice on its website
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Retrained its workforce members on email security precautions
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.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 3 states

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Maine State AGOct 15 · first

Massachusetts State AGOct 15 · first

New Hampshire State AGOct 15 · first

HHS OCROct 15 · first · this page

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: Oct 15, 2021
Raw hash: a5095dbe216fdba0f48e47802b33e364ea9f7dae344ebb4d923da72767649d77

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityUMass Memorial Health Care, Inc.

Victim entityUMass Memorial Health Care, Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing