MASSACHUSETTSAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASICMediumResolved
Massachusetts General Hospital
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Full breach record for Massachusetts General Hospital →Massachusetts General Hospital reported to HHS OCR on 2015-07-08 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 648 individuals. An employee sent an unencrypted email containing PHI (names, dates of birth, medical record numbers, and Social Security numbers) to an incorrect email address. The employee was sanctioned and the CE updated its policy to use a secure storage application in place of email for PHI transmission. OCR obtained assurances of corrective action implementation.
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.Confirmed648 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
- Jul 8, 2015
- Raw hash
- 57182a1b8e08ff49b84d8a87289bbbe189b82a18347cc45fad1b47f6b3321697
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Massachusetts General Hospitalnorm: massachusetts general hospital
- Domain
- massgeneral.org
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Massachusetts General Hospitalnorm: 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
- 648
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented corrective actions
- Initial access
- insider_action
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.