MASSACHUSETTSMalwareHealthcareEducationHealthcareRATCustomer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial accountHighResolved

UMASSAmherst

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Jun 5, 2013

To disclose

—

Affected

1,670

Linked

3 records

Confidence

95%

University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) reported to HHS OCR on 2013-06-05 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 1,670 individuals. A workstation at UMass's Center for Language, Speech, and Hearing was infected with a generic remote access Trojan (RAT), exposing ePHI including names, addresses, SSNs, dates of birth, health insurance information, diagnoses, and procedure codes. UMass lacked a firewall. HHS OCR settled for $650,000 with a corrective action plan. Breached information located on a Desktop Computer.

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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

Jun 5, 2013

Filed

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

This filing is one of 3 records about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_f96d7b84c59a404c2013-06-10 · +5dVerified

Enforcement records (1)

HHS OCR enforcementbd_2dd1bf2b944367ee2016-11-22 · +1266dVerified by operator

Name: UMASSAmherst
norm: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Domain: umass.edu
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: UMASSAmherst
norm: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Domain: umass.edu
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultEducationllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,670nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial account
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Desktop computer
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1219 Remote Access SoftwareT1190 Exploit Public-Facing ApplicationT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: HHS OCR investigation; $650,000 monetary settlement; Corrective Action Plan agreed

During the incident: Notified HHS OCR of breach
Agreed to $650,000 settlement
Agreed to enterprise-wide risk analysis
Agreed to develop and implement risk management plan
Agreed to revise policies and procedures
Agreed to train staff on updated policies and procedures
Changes made: Implemented firewall at Center for Language, Speech, and Hearing
Enterprise-wide risk analysis
Risk management plan development
Policy and procedure revisions
Staff training on HIPAA compliance
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 OCRJun 5 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+5d

Pattern: first filing Jun 5 (MA), last Jun 10 (MA) — a 5-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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: Jun 5, 2013
Raw hash: 84c3119e470d07f201cd78d8aa4dd74d3c7890cf4af948c52a40c12b46db2805

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Enforcement records (1)

Reporting entityUMASSAmherst

Victim entityUMASSAmherst

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS OCR of breach

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing