MASSACHUSETTSMalwareHealthcareHealthcareRansomwareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData EncryptedRansom DemandedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMediumResolved
SOUTH SHORE HOSPITAL, INC.
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Full breach record for SOUTH SHORE HOSPITAL, INC. →South Shore Hospital (MA) reported to HHS on 2020-09-23 that its business associate experienced a ransomware attack affecting the ePHI of 74,328 individuals. Breached information was located on a Network Server and included names, addresses, dates of birth, and treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media.
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.Confirmed74,328 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
- Sep 23, 2020
- Raw hash
- cf0be9e9ef27aeaf2d6589d4b1b8af5c361b29a3c8a5992441f5bb6b76cc8c97
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- SOUTH SHORE HOSPITAL, INC.norm: south shore hospital
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- SOUTH SHORE HOSPITAL, INC.norm: south shore hospital
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 74,328
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR notified
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.