ILLINOISMisuseHealthcareGovernmentHealthcarePrivilege AbuseStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial accountHighResolved

Illinois Department of Human Services

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Sep 20, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

1,960

Confidence

92%

Full breach record for Illinois Department of Human Services →6 incidents on file

Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (IL) reported to HHS on 2021-09-20 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 1,960 individuals. Previous household members retained access to CE accounts after access should have been terminated, and viewed PHI of former household members. PHI involved included names, addresses, birthdates, Social Security numbers, financial information, and diagnoses. Breached information located on Network Server. The CE implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards in response.

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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

Sep 20, 2021

Filed

—

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.Confirmed1,960 affectedView incident

Name: Illinois Department of Human Services
norm: illinois department of human
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Illinois Department of Human Services
norm: illinois department of human
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultGovernmentllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,960nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial account
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: HHS OCR notified
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative safeguards
Implemented additional technical safeguards
Implemented additional security safeguards to better protect PHI
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: Sep 20, 2021
Raw hash: a308c4d804696f89f522a2167d6747daed5c16bfaa1293aee2e15428ed1872cb

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Reporting entityIllinois Department of Human Services

Victim entityIllinois Department of Human Services

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing