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Breach notice filed by Foundation Medicine, Inc. (March 2020)

Organization named: Foundation Medicine, Inc. 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 Office for Civil Rights breach portal with a submission date of March 13, 2020.

Organization as reported
Foundation Medicine, Inc., MA
Entity type as reported
Healthcare Provider
Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information as reported
Email
Submission date
March 13, 2020
Observed by BreachRecords
2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12967, row:4106)
Archived copy
Held in the private archive (provenance)

The covered entity (CE), Foundation Medicine, Inc., reported that an employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of approximately 2,999 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, and clinical and treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI. In addition, the CE retrained its workforce members on the proper methods of identifying fraudulent email communications. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.

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

Figures, per source

  • 2,999 individuals affected (total reported), according to the HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal, source date March 13, 2020, revision observed 2026-10-18.

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Timeline

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  • Submission date (HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal)
  • Observed by BreachRecords (revision 12967)
  • Approved by a reviewer

Organizations linked by a reviewer

  • Foundation Medicine, Inc. 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, retrieved from HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal, 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC. Archived privately · Provenance · Source page

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