MASSACHUSETTSSocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICHEALTH_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTMINORMediumResolved
Boston Children's Hospital
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Full breach record for Boston Children's Hospital →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.
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.Confirmed506 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
- Apr 29, 2021
- Raw hash
- 6e2603b76a9e085996d4afa5e21ae8b1bca52eb9b601d588ca2282f8963a2f4d
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Boston Children's Hospitalnorm: boston children s hospital
- Domain
- childrenshospital.org
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Boston Children's Hospitalnorm: boston children s hospital
- Domain
- childrenshospital.org
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 506
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICHEALTH_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTMINOR
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1566 PhishingT1078 Valid Accounts
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- Notified HHS
- 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.