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MASSACHUSETTSHackingHealthcareHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial accountMediumContained

Massachusetts Department of Developmental Services

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Nov 8, 2024

To disclose

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Affected

3,800

Confidence

69%
Full breach record for Massachusetts Department of Developmental Services →6 incidents on file

Massachusetts Department of Developmental Services reported to HHS on 2024-11-08 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 3800 individuals. Breached information located on Email. Employees were subjects of an email phishing scheme compromising demographic, clinical, and financial PHI. The entity implemented additional safeguards and retrained staff.

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

Nov 8, 2024

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.Confirmed3,800 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.