BROCKTON NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER, INC.

Brockton Neighborhood Health Center (MA, healthcare provider) reported a ransomware attack to the HHS OCR breach portal on 2024-12-13 affecting protected health information of 97,488 individuals. PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, diagnoses, lab results, medications, and treatment/health insurance information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, and responded by adopting encryption technologies, retraining workforce members, and implementing additional physical and technical safeguards. No business associate was involved.

Brockton Neighborhood Health Center notified individuals of unauthorized access to its computer network between Nov 1-3, 2024. The attacker viewed/copied files containing PII and PHI (names, DOB, addresses, diagnoses, medical record numbers, insurance info). Discovery was Nov 3, 2024. Notification sent Dec 13, 2024. No specific count of affected individuals was disclosed in this filing.

BROCKTON NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER filed a data-breach notice with the Illinois Attorney General in December 2024 (case 24-12-021). The register records the breach as discovered on November 1, 2024. Illinois does not publish the number of people affected — 815 ILCS 530/10 permits the Attorney General to publish only the entity name, the types of personal information and the date range.

Brockton Neighborhood Health Center is a multicultural organization that collaborates with community agencies and residents to provide high quality comprehensive health care that is responsive to community health needs and is linguistically, culturally and financially accessible. We present to your attention a large SQL database, a collection of confidential documents of patients and employees.