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Breach notice filed by Boston Children’s Hospital (April 2021)

Organization named: Boston Children’s Hospital Provisional: identity as filed, not yet matched to the directory
Type as the source lists it: Hacking/IT Incident

What the sources say

HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) Primary notice

Posted on the HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) with a submission date of April 29, 2021.

Organization as reported
Boston Children’s Hospital, MA
Entity type as reported
Healthcare Provider
Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information as reported
Email
Submission date
April 29, 2021
Observed by BreachRecords
2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12185, row:3324)
Archived copy
Held in the private archive (provenance)

The covered entity (CE), Boston Children’s Hospital, reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 506 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, dates of birth, addresses, diagnoses, lab results, and health insurance information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and provided complimentary identity theft and fraud prevention services. In its mitigation efforts, the CE strengthened its administrative and technical safeguards and retrained its staff on the proper methods of recognizing and responding to fraudulent email communications.

The source's own words, from the revision above.

Figures, per source

  • 506 individuals affected (total reported), as reported by the HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals), source date April 29, 2021, revision observed 2026-10-18.

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Timeline

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  • Submission date at the HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals)
  • Observed by BreachRecords (revision 12185)
  • Approved by a reviewer

Organizations linked by a reviewer

  • Boston Children’s Hospital Named as the covered entity Provisional: identity as filed, not yet matched to the directory Linked 2026-10-19, method provisional.

Archived evidence

  • 3dbc27dd5742e041cc1e7fe18cc669e2901fbd3b86b7007ed27948ff4d406e1f
    text/csv, 5,530,996 bytes, from the HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals), retrieved 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC. Archived privately · Provenance · Source page

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