MASSACHUSETTSMisuseHealthcareGovernmentHealthcarePrivilege AbuseCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMediumResolved
Massachusetts Department of Public Health - Tewksbury Hospital
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Full breach record for Massachusetts Department of Public Health - Tewksbury Hospital →Massachusetts Department of Public Health - Tewksbury Hospital reported to HHS on 2017-07-21 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 1,176 individuals. A hospital employee impermissibly accessed electronic medical records containing demographic and clinical PHI. The employee resigned prior to sanctions being applied. Remediation included restricting EMR access by role/location, removing sensitive data from patient summary pages, and retraining all staff. OCR reviewed policies and obtained corrective-action assurances.
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.Confirmed1,176 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
- Jul 21, 2017
- Raw hash
- 469e2c8d2b016247152627c2cb8cc4b78697a503e4e658cb81ef225ce1293071
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Massachusetts Department of Public Health - Tewksbury Hospitalnorm: massachusetts department of public health tewksbury hospital
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Massachusetts Department of Public Health - Tewksbury Hospitalnorm: massachusetts department of public health tewksbury hospital
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource defaultGovernmentllm
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 1,176
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1078 Valid Accounts
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- OCR reviewed the covered entity's policies and procedures and obtained assurances that corrective actions were implemented.
- Initial access
- insider_action
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.