FEDERALHackingHealthcareHealthcareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMedium

Massachusetts General Hospital

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Hackers caused a breach of protected health information (PHI) at Patterson Dental Supply, Inc., a business associate (BA) of the covered entity (CE), Massachusetts General Hospital. The breach affected the PHI of approximately 4,293 individuals, and included demographic and clinical information. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individuals, and the media. OCR’s investigation revealed that the CE and BA had a business associate agreement in place at the time of the breach. OCR has opened a separate review of the BA concerning the underlying breach.

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.Confirmed4,293 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: Jun 29, 2016
Raw hash: 3c10be6eb242fb873406277017326fa894a25c6ff8df8a66419277b2c760f4c3

Source filing

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Reporting entity

Name: Massachusetts General Hospital
norm: massachusetts general hospital
Domain: massgeneral.org
Industry: Health Care Services

Victim entity

Name: Massachusetts General Hospital
norm: massachusetts general hospital
Domain: massgeneral.org
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Incident

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 4,293
Data types: HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Partner

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

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.