Source methodology

Implemented official source

Massachusetts Data Breach Notification Reports

One reporting-organization row in a reviewed annual report

Bounded to the complete published 2024 through 2026 annual reports.

Regulator
Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation
Jurisdiction
Massachusetts
Reporting scheme
Massachusetts data breach notification reporting
Publication level
Named Notification
Coverage type
Bounded Historical Dataset
Reporting threshold
Reports concern breaches affecting Massachusetts residents under the state reporting framework.
Source population
Reporting organizations listed in the official annual notification reports.
Licence state
Official Massachusetts public report; publication is limited to attributed factual fields and remains subject to Mass.gov terms.
Rights boundary reviewed
24 July 2026
Redistribution decision
Approved With Conditions
Automated health
Healthy
Snapshot completeness
Complete
Update checkpoint
Complete
Reviewed record floor
2,000
Accepted records
5,991
Rejected records
0
Bounded retrieval limit
10,000
Source revision
annual-reports-2024-2026:5ad78af8b04b88bb
Snapshot checksum
5ad78af8b04b88bb904d0a94f6297f01ec1176d4b0a241a1bc371601b214c60d
Latest update attempt
7 Sept 2026
Last successful update
7 Sept 2026

Limitations

  • The reporting organization may differ from every affected entity.
  • Coverage is bounded to the reviewed 2024 through 2026 annual reports rather than the full series beginning in 2007.
  • Affected-resident totals may change as reporting organizations update counts.
  • The source can publish placeholder and duplicate-marker rows without independent notification facts; those rows are counted and excluded.
  • Consumer notification letters are excluded.

Correction process

Check the current official annual reports and report index; do not retrieve or reproduce consumer notification letters.

Attribution

Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation