MASSACHUSETTSMisuseHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Berkshire Medical Center

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Nov 23, 2016

To disclose

—

Affected

1,745

Confidence

68%

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Berkshire Medical Center reported to HHS on 2016-11-23 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 1745 individuals. Breached information located on Email, Other Portable Electronic Device. A former employee of business associate Ambucor Health Solutions stole PHI from a mobile computer drive.

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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

Nov 23, 2016

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.

Part of Ambucor Health Solutions supply-chain incident (2016) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,745 affectedView incident

Name: Berkshire Medical Center
norm: berkshire medical center
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Berkshire Medical Center
norm: berkshire medical center
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,745nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: EmailPortable electronic device
Covered-entity type: Healthcare providerBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: OCR reviewed the CE's BA agreementOCR obtained assurances that individuals affected by this breach were notified
Third party: via Ambucor Health Solutionsbusiness associate

During the incident: Notified individuals affected by this breach in accordance with the Breach Notification Rule
Changes made: OCR reviewed the CE's BA agreement and determined that it is compliance with the Privacy Rule
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: Nov 23, 2016
Raw hash: bc1ee6a9e067ed4433b296da67aa98cf8013e800bcf39e9821bfee2f1328764e

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Reporting entityBerkshire Medical Center

Victim entityBerkshire Medical Center

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified individuals affected by this breach in accordance with the Breach Notification Rule

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing