MASSACHUSETTSAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICLowResolved
Massachusetts General Hospital
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Full breach record for Massachusetts General Hospital →Massachusetts General Hospital reported to HHS on 2018-12-14 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 588 individuals. Breached information located on Paper/Films. A business associate erroneously sent retirement-notification letters to 580 patients with the wrong patient names due to a mail merge error, exposing PHI (patient names and treating physician identity). The CE notified affected individuals, retrained staff, terminated the BA relationship, and internalized mailings. OCR 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.Confirmed588 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
- Dec 14, 2018
- Raw hash
- ed6456b4debb7b3b42559426c9f1f4bb3d63de761e1527130bc3cc8711666877
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Massachusetts General Hospitalnorm: massachusetts general hospital
- Domain
- massgeneral.org
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Massachusetts General Hospitalnorm: massachusetts general hospital
- Domain
- massgeneral.org
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 588
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- Partner
- 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.