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The McLean Hospital Corporation
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Full breach record for The McLean Hospital Corporation →The McLean Hospital Corporation (MA) reported to HHS OCR on 2015-07-28 a Loss affecting 12,673 individuals. A terminated employee of the Brain Bank (Department of Neuroscience) failed to return four backup tapes in her possession. Breached ePHI included names, addresses, dates of birth, dates of death, intake diagnoses, family medical histories, and social security numbers. OCR obtained written assurances on tape encryption and backup procedure revisions. A consent judgment was also entered with the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office.
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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed12,673 affectedView incident
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
- Jul 28, 2015
- Raw hash
- b3049b92ec50318073c4ec9244951456e30b69f3892944d7ee9b976a67d94109
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- The McLean Hospital Corporationnorm: the mclean hospital
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- The McLean Hospital Corporationnorm: the mclean hospital
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 12,673
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR investigation — written assurances obtained regarding encryption of all Brain Bank backup tapes and revision of ePHI backup proceduresConsent judgment with required corrective action entered with the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office
- Initial access
- insider_action
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.