MASSACHUSETTSAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Health (basic)MediumResolved

New England Baptist Health

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jun 8, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

7,582

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for New England Baptist Health →

New England Baptist Health (MA) reported to HHS OCR on 2018-06-08 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 7,582 individuals. The covered entity impermissibly disclosed a retired physician's patient list — containing patient names and addresses — to the physician and to an outside healthcare provider where the physician referred his patients. Breached information was located in Email. No business associate was involved. Following the breach, all copies of the list were destroyed, sanctions were applied, and the workforce was retrained. OCR reviewed policies and procedures and obtained corrective-action assurances.

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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

Jun 8, 2018

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.Confirmed7,582 affectedView incident

Name: New England Baptist Health
norm: new england baptist health
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: New England Baptist Health
norm: new england baptist health
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 7,582nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Health (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: HHS OCR reviewed policies and procedures and obtained assurances of corrective actions.
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Breach notification provided to HHS.
Breach notification provided to affected individuals.
Breach notification provided to the media.
Changes made: All copies of the disclosed patient list were destroyed.
Appropriate sanctions applied to workforce members.
Workforce retrained.
Policies and procedures reviewed by OCR.
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.

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: Jun 8, 2018
Raw hash: 19909118427c7524be212f834c771f655bfc34a43450467cbe4a3584cdf13263

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Reporting entityNew England Baptist Health

Victim entityNew England Baptist Health

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseBreach notification provided to HHS.

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing