MASSACHUSETTSHackingHealthcareHealthcareStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICHEALTH_BASICMediumResolved
THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL, INC.
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Full breach record for THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL, INC. →Brigham and Women's Hospital (MA) reported to HHS on 2016-01-11 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 1,009 individuals. An unauthorized individual obtained employee network credentials and used them to access the employee's work email account and potentially a personal Gmail account containing work-related emails. PHI potentially accessed included names, birthdates, medical record numbers, provider names, dates of service, diagnoses/conditions, and treatment information. Breached information located on Email. OCR obtained assurances of corrective actions.
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.Confirmed1,009 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
- Jan 11, 2016
- Raw hash
- 040805c5ff1784141c276133a75e16cc32cd18ca168d65a1d7a435bd63a3c48e
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL, INC.norm: the brigham and women s hospital
- Domain
- brighamandwomens.org
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL, INC.norm: the brigham and women s hospital
- Domain
- brighamandwomens.org
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 1,009
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICHEALTH_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1078 Valid AccountsT1566 Phishing
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- OCR obtained assurances that corrective actions were implemented.
- Initial access
- valid_credentials
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.