MASSACHUSETTSHackingHealthcareHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTMediumContained
Massachusetts Department of Developmental Services
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Full breach record for Massachusetts Department of Developmental Services →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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed3,800 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- 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
- Nov 8, 2024
- Raw hash
- 4b49d9dd60bcd38bafd4169609bd0dc609c3d5f0e438232a6cef39471d459477
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Massachusetts Department of Developmental Servicesnorm: massachusetts department of developmental
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Massachusetts Department of Developmental Servicesnorm: massachusetts department of developmental
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 3,800
- Data types
- PHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- Notified HHS
- Initial access
- phishing_link
Compliance
- 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
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.