MASSACHUSETTSSocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial accountHighResolved

UMass Memorial Health Care, Inc.

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Feb 28, 2022

To disclose

—

Affected

4,270

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

96%

Full breach record for UMass Memorial Health Care, Inc. →9 incidents on file

UMass Memorial Health Care (MA) reported to HHS on 2022-02-28 a Hacking/IT Incident (email phishing) affecting 4,270 individuals. Several employees were targeted by a phishing scheme compromising PHI including names, SSNs, dates of birth, addresses, driver's license numbers, diagnoses, lab results, and health insurance information. Breached information was located in Email. The CE notified HHS, individuals, and media, offered credit monitoring, and implemented additional safeguards and staff retraining.

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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

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Breach window unknown

Feb 28, 2022

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

This filing is one of 2 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_ce60499a036985d82022-03-02 · +2dVerified

Name: UMass Memorial Health Care, Inc.
norm: umass memorial health care
Domain: umassmemorial.org

Name: UMass Memorial Health Care, Inc.
norm: umass memorial health care
Domain: umassmemorial.org
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 4,270nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial account
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 PhishingT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: HHS OCR notification
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Provided substitute notice
Offered complimentary credit monitoring services
Implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards
Retrained staff on email security
Changes made: Additional administrative safeguards implemented
Additional technical safeguards implemented
Staff email security retraining
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

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

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: not extracted → Notified: not extracted	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings

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HHS OCRFeb 28 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+2d

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://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 28, 2022
Raw hash: 9ab8a3f68fe7016ad2d50df7c91079df2bdefd78380c8b49c55c8a97292621e0

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityUMass Memorial Health Care, Inc.

Victim entityUMass Memorial Health Care, Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS, affected individuals, and the media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing