ILLINOISMisuseHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Lake County Health Department

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Feb 19, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

14,488

Confidence

50%

Full breach record for Lake County Health Department →

Lake County Health Department reported to HHS on February 19, 2020, that an employee sent an unencrypted email containing the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 14,488 individuals to their personal email account. The breached information was located in the email. The ePHI included names and other identifying information. In response, the department sanctioned the employee, retrained all staff, and implemented additional security safeguards.

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HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified

⚠ no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.

⚠ No discovery dateThe OCR public portal omits the discovery date, so the 60-day notification clock cannot be evaluated from this source — only that the filing was submitted.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Feb 19, 2020

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed14,488 affectedView incident

Name: Lake County Health Department
norm: lake county health department
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Lake County Health Department
norm: lake county health department
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 14,488nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified HHSOCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions

During the incident: Sanctioned the responsible employee
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI
All workforce members were retrained
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: HHS notified
Discovery-date grounding: no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
HIPAA
Discovered: not extracted
→ Notified: not extracted
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: not extracted → Notified: not extracted	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source URL: https://ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/breach/breach_report.jsf
DisclosureLens renders the full SEC/HHS filing inline below from the originating regulator’s public record (§4.5 fair report privilege).
Filed at: Feb 19, 2020
Raw hash: 9c070657dc180034486473c07afe4fa62afe45d540eccea10d01bd0d00f862bf

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Reporting entityLake County Health Department

Victim entityLake County Health Department

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseSanctioned the responsible employee

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing