MASSACHUSETTSSocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Health (basic)Financial accountMinorMediumResolved

Boston Children's Hospital

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 29, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

506

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for Boston Children's Hospital →9 incidents on file

Boston Children's Hospital reported to HHS on 2021-04-29 a Hacking/IT Incident (email phishing) affecting 506 individuals. An employee was the victim of a phishing scheme that compromised ePHI stored in email, including names, dates of birth, addresses, diagnoses, lab results, and health insurance information. The CE notified affected individuals, offered identity theft protection services, and retrained staff on phishing awareness.

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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

Apr 29, 2021

Filed

—

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 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_57b53329aff743032021-04-29Verified

Name: Boston Children's Hospital
norm: boston children s hospital
Domain: childrenshospital.org
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Boston Children's Hospital
norm: boston children s hospital
Domain: childrenshospital.org
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 506nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Health (basic)Financial accountMinor
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 PhishingT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified HHS
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified affected individuals
Provided complimentary identity theft and fraud prevention services
Strengthened administrative and technical safeguards
Retrained staff on recognizing and responding to fraudulent email communications
Changes made: Enhanced administrative safeguards
Enhanced technical safeguards
Staff retraining on phishing awareness
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 · 2 filings

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Massachusetts State AGApr 29 · first

HHS OCRApr 29 · first · this page

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: Apr 29, 2021
Raw hash: 6e2603b76a9e085996d4afa5e21ae8b1bca52eb9b601d588ca2282f8963a2f4d

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityBoston Children's Hospital

Victim entityBoston Children's Hospital

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified affected individuals

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing