MASSACHUSETTSAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)HighResolved

Emerson Hospital

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 8, 2019

To disclose

—

Affected

6,314

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

95%

Full breach record for Emerson Hospital →2 incidents on file

Emerson Hospital (MA) reported to HHS on 2019-03-08 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure breach affecting 6,314 individuals. The hospital's business associate, MiraMed Global Services Inc., impermissibly transmitted electronic files containing PHI to an unauthorized third party. PHI involved included names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and insurance information. Emerson Hospital notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, and offered free identity protection services to all affected individuals. Breached information was located on Other.

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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

Mar 8, 2019

Filed

—

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 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_1a64feb98e32aed52019-03-08Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_a4da94385672ceb02019-03-08Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_a5e5d6abd7ddb91f2019-03-08Verified

Name: Emerson Hospital
norm: emerson hospital
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Emerson Hospital
norm: emerson hospital
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 6,314nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Other
Covered-entity type: Healthcare providerBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Partner
Regulator citations: HHS notification filed 2019-03-08
Third party: via MiraMed Global Services Inc.

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified media
Offered free identity protection services to all affected individuals
Changes made: Free identity protection services offered to affected individuals
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 · 4 filings · 3 states

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Montana State AGMar 8 · first

Massachusetts State AGMar 8 · first

New Hampshire State AGMar 8 · first

HHS OCRMar 8 · first · this page

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: Mar 8, 2019
Raw hash: 0b04b791ac8100d6d052ed7b0e1caf216d11432878beb7c28ccad15afb76891d

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityEmerson Hospital

Victim entityEmerson Hospital

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing