MASSACHUSETTSMalwareHealthcareHealthcareCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTHighContained
Partners HealthCare System, Inc.
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Full breach record for Partners HealthCare System, Inc. →Partners HealthCare System, Inc. reported to HHS on 2018-02-05 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 2450 individuals. Breached information located on Desktop Computer, Network Server. The system was infected with malware. PHI involved included names, treatment information, Social Security numbers, and financial information. The CE updated technical safeguards and retrained its workforce.
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.Confirmed2,450 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
- Feb 5, 2018
- Raw hash
- 2dd4aac8ae1959515b3a59a2e7f9cbf150b7bde32938d8ab2156161118a650a6
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Partners HealthCare System, Inc.norm: partners healthcare system
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Partners HealthCare System, Inc.norm: partners healthcare system
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 2,450
- Data types
- PHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted above
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.