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ILLINOISMisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)LowResolved

NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 30, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

682

Confidence

98%
Full breach record for NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL →3 incidents on file

Northwestern Memorial Hospital (IL) reported to HHS on 2020-12-30 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 682 individuals. A workforce member impermissibly accessed ePHI stored in Electronic Medical Records, including names, dates of birth, addresses, medications prescribed, and additional clinical/treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and state and federal regulators. Post-breach, the responsible workforce member was sanctioned and staff were retrained.

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

Dec 30, 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.Confirmed682 affectedView incident

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.