MASSACHUSETTSMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData EncryptedRansom DemandedPHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMediumContained
Joslin Diabetes Center
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Full breach record for Joslin Diabetes Center →Joslin Diabetes Center reported to HHS on 2020-09-14 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 71,160 individuals. A business associate experienced a ransomware attack affecting electronic protected health information (ePHI) located on a network server. The ePHI included names, addresses, email addresses, gender, dates of birth, and treatment information. The Center notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media.
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.
This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_b50dc0f5f6e17bc9Washington State AGfiled 2020-09-18(4d gap)Verified
- bd_d9d141ecb103bdb8California State AGfiled 2020-09-18(4d gap)Verified
- bd_d1383f627c2dcb20Montana State AGfiled 2020-09-20(6d gap)Verified
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
- Sep 14, 2020
- Raw hash
- 737a49d6a36c84b2c835b5fb3b71b2650ef22744fa2c453be8c877dc4a549a95
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Joslin Diabetes Centernorm: joslin diabetes center
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Joslin Diabetes Centernorm: joslin diabetes center
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 71,160
- Data types
- PHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Regulator citations
- Notified HHS
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.