WISCONSINSocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial accountPIIHighResolved

Advocate Aurora Health, Inc.

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 16, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

27,137

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for Advocate Aurora Health, Inc. →11 incidents on file

Advocate Aurora Health (WI) reported to HHS OCR on 2020-04-16 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 27,137 individuals. Several employees were victims of an email phishing scheme. PHI exposed via Email included names, addresses, dates of birth, driver's license numbers, SSNs, passport numbers, full face photographs, claims and financial information, health insurance information, diagnoses/conditions, lab results, medications prescribed, and other treatment information. Identity theft protection was offered; additional safeguards and workforce retraining were implemented.

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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

Apr 16, 2020

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed27,137 affectedView incident

Name: Advocate Aurora Health, Inc.
norm: advocate aurora health
Domain: advocateaurorahealth.org
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Advocate Aurora Health, Inc.
norm: advocate aurora health
Domain: advocateaurorahealth.org
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 27,137nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial accountPII
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 PhishingT1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: HHS OCR notified
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Provided substitute notice
Changes made: Offered complimentary identity theft protection services to affected individuals
Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Retrained workforce members on identifying fraudulent email communications
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: Apr 16, 2020
Raw hash: a2450f9af902912e14e426e32d81294b7972a7c54148168a9d9b927e2f94c881

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Reporting entityAdvocate Aurora Health, Inc.

Victim entityAdvocate Aurora Health, Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing