HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) Primary notice
Posted on the HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal with a submission date of Jan. 3, 2022.
- Organization as reported
- Brockton Hospital, Inc. d/b/a Signature Healthcare Brockton Hospital, MA
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- Jan. 3, 2022
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 11690, row:2829)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The covered entity (CE), Brockton Hospital dba Signature Healthcare – Brockton Hospital, reported that several employees were the victims of an email phishing scheme that affected the protected health information (PHI) of 73,022 individuals. The PHI involved included names, dates of birth, diagnoses, medications prescribed, lab results, and claims information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. In response to the breach, the CE strengthened its administrative and technical safeguards and retrained its staff on email security.