MASSACHUSETTSMalwareHealthcareEducationHealthcareRATCustomer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTHighResolved
UMASSAmherst
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Full breach record for UMASSAmherst →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.
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.Confirmed1,670 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
- Jun 5, 2013
- Raw hash
- 84c3119e470d07f201cd78d8aa4dd74d3c7890cf4af948c52a40c12b46db2805
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- UMASSAmherstnorm: umassamherst
- Domain
- umass.edu
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- UMASSAmherstnorm: umassamherst
- Domain
- umass.edu
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource defaultEducationllm
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 1,670
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
- 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
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.