ILMisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICLowResolved
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
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Full breach record for Northwestern Memorial Hospital →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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed682 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
- Dec 30, 2020
- Raw hash
- d24b053b74597c8de00885426ae98dc586747fa0a655c3bd58fd8029756fc62e
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Northwestern Memorial Hospitalnorm: northwestern memorial hospital
- Domain
- nm.org
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- Northwestern Memorial Hospitalnorm: northwestern memorial hospital
- Domain
- nm.org
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 682
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR notifiedstate regulatory agencies notifiedfederal regulatory agencies notifiedmedia notified
- Initial access
- insider_action
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.