DisclosureLens
MASSACHUSETTSHackingHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHighContained

Newton Centre Dental

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 12, 2024

To disclose

—

Affected

2,547

Confidence

68%
Full breach record for Newton Centre Dental →2 incidents on file

Newton Centre Dental reported to HHS on 2024-03-12 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 2547 individuals. Breached information located on Email. An employee of its business associate was the subject of an email phishing scheme that compromised PHI including names, addresses, DOB, SSNs, and medical data. CE and BA implemented safeguards and retrained staff.

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

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Mar 12, 2024

Filed

—

No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2,547 affectedView incident

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.