MASSACHUSETTSMisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHighContained

ATHENAHEALTH, INC.

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Nov 15, 2024

To disclose

—

Affected

1,974

Linked

7 filings

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for ATHENAHEALTH, INC. →

athenahealth, Inc. reported to HHS on 2024-11-15 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 1,974 individuals. An employee posted PHI (names, addresses, DOBs, SSNs, insurance info) to the Internet. Breached information located on Network Server. Business associate present.

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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

Nov 15, 2024

Filed

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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 7 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_4578d2cfe6b206432024-11-15Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_8ba652ba3e10c74b2024-11-15Verified
Indiana State AGbd_dda00b7398f09ba52024-11-15Verified
Idaho State AGbd_e9e06934e266ff552024-11-15Verified

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Massachusetts State AGbd_0ce80a8b77ec1d4a2024-11-16 · +1dVerified
Illinois State AGbd_47ff2c4a38b2128f2024-11-01 · +14dVerified

Name: ATHENAHEALTH, INC.
norm: athenahealth
Domain: athenahealth.com
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: ATHENAHEALTH, INC.
norm: athenahealth
Domain: athenahealth.com
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,974nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1530 Data from Cloud Storage Object
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified HHS
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Posted substitute notice on its website
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its sensitive data
Retrained staff involved in the disclosure
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 · 7 filings · 6 states

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Illinois State AGNov 1 · first

Montana State AG+14d

New Hampshire State AG+14d

Indiana State AG+14d

Idaho State AG+14d

HHS OCR+14d · this page

Massachusetts State AG+15d

Pattern: first filing Nov 1 (IL), last Nov 16 (MA) — a 15-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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: Nov 15, 2024
Raw hash: 8585b8161d77862e6407068d3ccb896517954f779346772a61fee071694dcbd9

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityATHENAHEALTH, INC.

Victim entityATHENAHEALTH, INC.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing