FEDERALMisuseHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMediumResolved
Lake County Health Department
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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.
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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed14,488 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- 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
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Lake County Health Departmentnorm: lake county health department
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Lake County Health Departmentnorm: lake county health department
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 14,488
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- Notified HHSOCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions
Compliance
- 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
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.