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SUMMARY

Patient billing records left on train.
Records 192
Record Types NAA MED DOB
Breach Type Lost Document
Data Family Physical
Source Inside - Accidental
Organization Massachusetts General Hospital
Other Affected/Involved Organizations None
Lawsuit? YES
Data Recovered? NO/UNKNOWN
Arrest? NO/UNKNOWN
Submitted By: patio

TIMELINE

DateEvent
2009-03-09 Incident Occurred
None. Add Data Incident Discovered By Organization
2009-03-24 Organization Reports Incident
None. Add Data Organization Mails Notifications
None. Add Data Records Recovered
2009-05-13 Lawsuit Filed
None. Add Data Arrest Made

SIMILAR INCIDENTS

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97 2011-02-16 St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital

MAP OF INCIDENT LOCATION

Address: Boston, MA, USA
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COSTS SUMMARY

Known Actual Costs

No known costs for this incident.

Estimated Costs

Ponemon Institute Direct Costs Estimate 1 $11,520.00
  1. Note that these estimates are based on the Ponemon Institute's 2009 direct costs figures from their 2009 Annual Study: Cost of a Data Breach. We multiply $60.00 by the number of records to obtain this figure. Keep in mind that depending on the breach, the direct costs are not always suffered by the breached organizations. In the case of credit card number breaches, the direct costs can often be suffered by banks and card issuers. Also note that this is only an estimate.

COMMENTS

by jkouns [Senior Researcher] on 2011-03-03 (11 months ago)

Massachusetts General Hospital and its physicians organization have agreed to pay the federal government $1 million in fines related to an incident in which a worker left personal health documents on the subway.

by sromanos [Apprentice Investigator] on 2011-03-28 (10 months ago)

The payment seems to be a result of a fine to the US Department of Health and Human Services, as opposed to settlement from consumer litigation.

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