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Breach notice filed by UMass Memorial Health Care, Inc. (October 2021)

Organization named: UMass Memorial Health Care 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 Oct. 15, 2021.

Organization as reported
UMass Memorial Health Care, Inc., MA
Entity type as reported
Business Associate
Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information as reported
Email
Submission date
Oct. 15, 2021
Observed by BreachRecords
2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 11852, row:2991)
Archived copy
Held in the private archive (provenance)

UMass Memorial Health Care, the covered entity (CE), reported that an employee was the subject of an email phishing scheme that affected the protected health information (PHI) of 209,048 individuals. The PHI involved included names, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers. UMass notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and posted substitute notice on its website. In its mitigation efforts, UMass implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards. In addition, UMass retrained its workforce members on email security precautions.

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

Figures, per source

  • 209,048 individuals affected (total reported), according to the HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal, source date Oct. 15, 2021, 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 11852)
  • Approved by a reviewer

Organizations linked by a reviewer

  • UMass Memorial Health Care Named as a service provider 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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