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.

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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

Sep 14, 2020

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

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

Washington State AGbd_b50dc0f5f6e17bc92020-09-18 · +4dVerified
California State AGbd_d9d141ecb103bdb82020-09-18 · +4dVerified
Montana State AGbd_d1383f627c2dcb202020-09-20 · +6dVerified

Name: Joslin Diabetes Center
norm: joslin diabetes center
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Joslin Diabetes Center
norm: joslin diabetes center
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 71,160nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Healthcare providerBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified HHS

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Provided substitute notice
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 · 4 states

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HHS OCRSep 14 · first · this page

Washington State AG+4d

California State AG+4d

Montana State AG+6d

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.

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

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityJoslin Diabetes Center

Victim entityJoslin Diabetes Center

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing