ILLINOISHackingHealthcareHealthcareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountCriticalResolved

Advocate Health and Hospitals Corporation d/b/a Advocate Medical Group

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Severity

Critical

Financial impact

$5.55M

Discovered

—

Filed

Sep 13, 2013

To disclose

—

Affected

2,029

Confidence

69%

Advocate Health and Hospitals Corporation d/b/a Advocate Medical Group reported to HHS on 2013-09-13 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 2029 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server. The entity is a Business Associate. The breach involved ePHI including demographic, clinical, insurance, and financial data. A $5.55 million settlement was reached with OCR.

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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 13, 2013

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.Confirmed2,029 affectedView incident

Name: Advocate Health and Hospitals Corporation d/b/a Advocate Medical Group
norm: advocate health and hospitals corporation d/b/a advocate medical group
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Advocate Health and Hospitals Corporation d/b/a Advocate Medical Group
norm: advocate health and hospitals corporation d/b/a advocate medical group
Also named: Advocate Health and Hospitals Corporationdba oflegal entity
Advocate Medical Groupdba oftrade name
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 2,029nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified HHS OCRState Attorney General investigation
Third party: via Advocate Health Care Networkbusiness associate

During the incident: Agreed to pay a settlement amount of $5.55 million
Adopted a corrective action plan
Changes made: Engaged in comprehensive risk analysis and risk management
Implemented physical, technical, and administrative security measures
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 13, 2013
Raw hash: 2b79af4a780de2ab89610656d6b07bc4c2f426cff4df52f27f0be1c8f615e849

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Reporting entityAdvocate Health and Hospitals Corporation d/b/a Advocate Medical Group

Victim entityAdvocate Health and Hospitals Corporation d/b/a Advocate Medical Group

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseAgreed to pay a settlement amount of $5.55 million

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing