MASSACHUSETTSSocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASICHighResolved
Lynn Community Health Center
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Full breach record for Lynn Community Health Center →Lynn Community Health, Incorporated (MA) reported to HHS OCR on 2021-01-22 a Hacking/IT Incident (email phishing attack) affecting 1,800 individuals. Multiple employees were victims of a phishing attack compromising ePHI including names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, medications prescribed, and other treatment information. Breached information was located in Email systems. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. Response included staff retraining on email security and strengthening of technical safeguards.
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.Confirmed1,800 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
- Jan 22, 2021
- Raw hash
- cdc08fa1907bc62fc40b5c2ae9a740b9fbe0d37432de510a6a43b3f1c179361c
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Lynn Community Health Centernorm: lynn community health center
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Lynn Community Health Centernorm: lynn community health center
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 1,800
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1566 PhishingT1078 Valid Accounts
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR notifiedMedia notifiedSubstitute notice provided
- Initial access
- phishing_link
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.