MASSACHUSETTSAccidentalHealthcareHealthcarePublishing ErrorCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Harrington Physician Services

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 8, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

4,393

Confidence

97%

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Harrington Physician Services (MA) reported to HHS on 2021-04-08 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 4,393 individuals. An employee inadvertently uploaded a file to a network server that was publicly accessible, exposing ePHI including names, addresses, dates of birth, and treatment information. No business associate was involved. The CE removed the file, notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media.

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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

Apr 8, 2021

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.Confirmed4,393 affectedView incident

Name: Harrington Physician Services
norm: harrington physician
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Harrington Physician Services
norm: harrington physician
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 4,393nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: HHS OCR notification submitted

During the incident: Removed the inadvertently uploaded file from the public-accessible server
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Changes made: File removed from publicly accessible server
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.

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: Apr 8, 2021
Raw hash: 1fd333de7d77b093c1ea1fbe0ef7d98dd6917631d056de16cc003d3f68612c23

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Reporting entityHarrington Physician Services

Victim entityHarrington Physician Services

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseRemoved the inadvertently uploaded file from the public-accessible server

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing