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MASSACHUSETTSMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData EncryptedRansom DemandedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumContained

Joslin Diabetes Center

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Sep 14, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

71,160

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

69%
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.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Sep 14, 2020

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

This filing is one of 4 filings about the same incident.View merged incident
Part of BLACKBAUD, INC. supply-chain incident (2020) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

View merged incident ↗
HHS OCRSep 14 · first · this page

Pattern: first filing Sep 14 (MA), last Sep 20 (MT) — a 6-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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.