AccidentalHealthcareProfessional ServicesHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDPIIMediumContained

Boston Area Rape Crisis Center

bd_daf7de9273306cc7 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 16, 2026

To disclose

—

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Boston Area Rape Crisis Center →

Boston Area Rape Crisis Center (BARCC) notified the Massachusetts Attorney General of an inadvertent disclosure of personal information caused by an employee's violation of data security policies. The incident involved the misdelivery of data to an unintended recipient. BARCC terminated the responsible employee and attempted to contact the recipient to mitigate the exposure. The organization is retraining employees on data security protocols. The breach likely involved PII including names, addresses, and potentially Social Security numbers, given the context of credit freeze instructions included in the notice.

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Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Jan 16, 2026

Filed

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Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1 affectedView incident

Name: Boston Area Rape Crisis Center
norm: boston area rape crisis center
Domain: barcc.org

Name: Boston Area Rape Crisis Center
norm: boston area rape crisis center
Domain: barcc.org
Industry: HealthcarellmProfessional Servicesllm

Discovered: —
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDPII
Attack vector: Unknown
Threat actor: Internal

During the incident: Terminated the employee whose violation of BARCC’s policies led to this inadvertent disclosure
Attempted numerous times to contact the unintended recipient, including by phone and email
Changes made: Re-training its employees regarding important policies and protocols related to data security
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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://www.mass.gov/doc/2026-70-boston-area-rape-crisis-center/download
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 16, 2026
Raw hash: 166993cd9808b262b43eab9973b711fe9f19c8401c7656aba1344b904ba2f118

Reporting entityBoston Area Rape Crisis Center

Victim entityBoston Area Rape Crisis Center

IncidentUnknown

Stated responseTerminated the employee whose violation of BARCC’s policies led to this inadvertent disclosure

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancewww.mass.gov