How do I know if I am affected by the Springfield Hospital data breach?

Springfield Hospital is mailing notification letters directly to affected individuals. If you have received care or services from Springfield Hospital in the period leading up to April 2026 and you have not received a letter, contact the entity directly. 5,892 individuals were confirmed affected in the HHS OCR filing.

What data was exposed in the Springfield Hospital breach?

According to the notification letter and supporting filings, the compromised data included: Full name, Date of birth, Social Security number, Reason for visit, Treating physician name, Medical record number.

Was Springfield Hospital attacked by a ransomware group?

No threat actor has publicly claimed responsibility for the Springfield Hospital breach. The incident is categorized in the HHS OCR portal as a phishing.

Should I file a lawsuit over the Springfield Hospital data breach?

1 plaintiffs' firms have publicly announced investigations or filed complaints related to the Springfield Hospital breach: Shamis & Gentile P.A. (publicly investigating). We are not a law firm and cannot give legal advice; consult your own attorney to evaluate your options.

What is HealthConsent and how does it help with the Springfield Hospital breach?

HealthConsent is an independent health-data privacy service. We help affected individuals stop the ongoing flow of their health information by filing HIPAA restriction requests, FTC Health Breach Notification Rule deletion requests, and state-law deletion requests across providers, insurers, Health Information Exchanges, prescription networks, and data brokers. Credit monitoring offered by Springfield Hospital addresses identity-theft risk; HealthConsent addresses the longer-tail problem of your exposed health data continuing to be sold and shared by other entities downstream.

Active breach tracker Springfield, VT Disclosed April 10, 2026

Springfield Hospital Data Breach 2026: 5,892 Vermont Critical Access Hospital Patients Exposed. No Credit Monitoring Offered. What To Do

Springfield Hospital, a not-for-profit critical access hospital in Springfield, Vermont, disclosed in April 2026 a December 2025 employee email account compromise exposing names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, reason for visit, treating physician, and medical record numbers for 5,892 individuals. No credit monitoring offered despite SSN exposure. Here is what to do.

You have options. Scroll for the exact action steps, what your provider’s response covers, and what your health data needs beyond credit monitoring.

By HealthConsent Editorial Last updated May 15, 2026 Sources & methodology

Timeline

Dec 17, 2025

Unauthorized actor accesses employee email; same-day discovery

Dec 17, 2025

Attacker gained access

Feb 10, 2026

Investigation concludes; PHI confirmed in compromised mailbox

Apr 10, 2026

Notification letters issued; public notice posted

Apr 10, 2026

Disclosed publicly

Dec 17, 2025

Unauthorized actor accesses employee email; same-day discovery

Dec 17, 2025

Attacker gained access

Feb 10, 2026

Investigation concludes; PHI confirmed in compromised mailbox

Apr 10, 2026

Notification letters issued; public notice posted

Apr 10, 2026

Disclosed publicly

Data exposed

High-risk identity

Enables financial + identity theft

Date of birth Social Security number

Health records

Don't expire and can't be reissued

Medical record number

Contact & insurance

Phishing + targeted scams

Full name Reason for visit Treating physician name

Class actions filed by

These firms have publicly announced investigations. You may be eligible to join. We are not a law firm and cannot give legal advice.

Shamis & Gentile P.A. (publicly investigating)

If you received a letter

Your action plan, in five steps.

You have more rights than the notification letter explains. Each step below is a concrete thing you can do today. Full detail and timing in the sections that follow.

Accept credit monitoring

It’s the floor of the response. Take it.

Freeze your credit

Free at Equifax, Experian, TransUnion.

File IRS Form 14039

Prevent fraudulent tax return under your SSN.

Review your EOBs

Insurance statements catch medical identity theft early.

Stop the ongoing flow

Credit monitoring doesn’t cover your health records. HealthConsent does.

Jump to step 5: protect my health data

What happened

Springfield Hospital is a not-for-profit critical access hospital at 25 Ridgewood Road in Springfield, Vermont. It serves Windsor, Windham, and Bennington counties in Vermont plus Sullivan and Cheshire counties in New Hampshire.

On December 17, 2025, an unauthorized actor accessed an employee email account. Springfield Hospital discovered the unauthorized access the same day and immediately secured the email tenant. The forensic investigation concluded on February 10, 2026, confirming that PHI was present in the compromised mailbox. Notification letters were issued and a public notice was posted on April 10, 2026 — confirming 5,892 affected individuals total (including 806 New Hampshire residents and 41 Massachusetts residents).

No ransomware group has publicly claimed responsibility. No leak-site listing has been observed.

What was stolen

Full name plus one or more of:

Date of birth
Social Security number
Reason for visit
Treating physician name
Medical record number

Scope varied by individual — not every affected person had every data element exposed.

What Springfield Hospital is offering

Springfield Hospital’s notice directs recipients to obtain free annual credit reports and to place fraud alerts or security freezes on their own. The notice does not offer complimentary credit monitoring or identity-theft protection — a notable omission for a breach exposing Social Security numbers.

Dedicated call center: 833-289-6183 (Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Eastern)

The absence of credit monitoring is likely to be a focal point of any class action investigation.

What to do

Place free credit freezes at Equifax, Experian, TransUnion — Springfield Hospital is not providing monitoring.
File IRS Form 14039 if your SSN was in scope.
Consider purchasing your own credit monitoring given the SSN exposure profile.
Watch your insurance Explanation of Benefits statements for unfamiliar claims.
Stop the ongoing flow of your hospital data. HealthConsent files HIPAA restriction requests so the visit, physician, and MRN data exposed in this breach is not continuously re-shared.

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Sources & further reading

Official HHS OCR Breach Portal: ocrportal.hhs.gov

About this page

This page is compiled from public regulatory filings, the breached entity’s own disclosures, and reporting from established healthcare-privacy outlets. Some sections are assembled with the help of automated research and may contain errors, summaries that lag the underlying source, or details that have since been revised. Treat it as a starting point, not legal advice or an authoritative record. If you spot something inaccurate, the linked sources above are the canonical record. For questions about your individual situation, contact the breached entity directly or consult a licensed attorney.