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Massachusetts General Hospital
ArchivedSubmitted 07/08/2015
Updated 16 hours ago ()
- State
- MA
- Covered entity type
- Healthcare Provider
- Individuals affected
- 648
- Business associate present
- No
- Type of breach
- Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of breached information
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Sep 23, 2026
- Last seen in OCR export
- Oct 25, 2026
OCR description
An employee of the covered entity (CE), Massachusetts General Hospital, sent an unencrypted e-mail to the incorrect e-mail address. The e-mail contained the protected health information (PHI of 648 individuals. The types of PHI involved in the breach included names, dates of birth, medical record number sand social security numbers. Following the breach, the CE sanctioned the employee in question and changed its policy to use a secure storage application instead of e-mail to send PHI. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions listed above.
Change history
- Sep 23, 2026Added to OCR's archive list
Source: HHS OCR Breach Portal, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights about this source
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