MASSACHUSETTSMisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICLowResolved
The Lowell General Hospital
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Full breach record for The Lowell General Hospital →The Lowell General Hospital (MA) reported to HHS on 2017-11-10 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 769 individuals. An employee impermissibly accessed the PHI of 769 individuals, including demographic and clinical information stored in Electronic Medical Records. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. The employee was sanctioned, and the CE updated its policies to detect inappropriate access. OCR reviewed CE policies and found compliance with the Privacy and Security Rules.
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.Confirmed769 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
- Nov 10, 2017
- Raw hash
- 3b664aac01c021247031d0288d0c05f957c9fde87174492dc509a068e6f3adc7
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- The Lowell General Hospitalnorm: the lowell general hospital
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- The Lowell General Hospitalnorm: the lowell general hospital
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 769
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1078 Valid Accounts
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR reviewed CE policies; CE found in compliance with Privacy and Security Rules. OCR obtained documented assurances of corrective actions.
- Initial access
- insider_action
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.