MASSACHUSETTSMisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial accountMediumResolved

Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 8, 2010

To disclose

—

Affected

1,076

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary →8 incidents on file

Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary reported to HHS on 2010-01-08 a Theft affecting 1076 individuals. Breached information located on Other. Two employees misused credit card information and PHI including names, addresses, and credit card data. Employees were terminated and credit monitoring offered.

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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

Jan 8, 2010

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,076 affectedView incident

Name: Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
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Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
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Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,076nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial account
HHS breach type: Theft
Where the data lived: Other
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified HHSOCR reviewed the CE's breach notification policies
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Notified the affected individuals
Notified the media
Notified HHS
Offered one free year of credit monitoring to all affected individuals
Terminated the employees involved
Revised its data breach prevention policy
Reviewed the physical processes involved when payment is made in person using a credit card
Changes made: Revised its data breach prevention policy
Reviewed the physical processes involved when payment is made in person using a credit card
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.

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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: Jan 8, 2010
Raw hash: e62bef62bf4df7d7d0087148eeff0505218bd7d3fe9b7295db3100f546dc0f6a

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Reporting entityMassachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary

Victim entityMassachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified the affected individuals

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing