ILAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMediumResolved

Cook County Health

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Cook County Health & Hospitals System (IL) reported to HHS on 2014-01-11 a breach of type 'Other' affecting 22,511 individuals. On November 12, 2013, a physician sent an unencrypted email with an Excel attachment containing PHI to a collaborator outside the organization's firewall, as part of a public health project with an academic medical center. PHI included demographic information and lab results. The attachment was unencrypted in violation of organizational policy. The CE disciplined the employee, implemented a new email security program, and retrained staff. OCR verified corrective actions.

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.Confirmed22,511 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: Jan 11, 2014
Raw hash: c67527a023d54c50edb83d25bfecea1716df9749d3157a5edf5064152498aaaf

Source filing

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Reporting entity

Name: Cook County Health
norm: cook county health
Industry: Health Care Services

Victim entity

Name: Cook County Health
norm: cook county health
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Incident

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 22,511
Data types: HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1048 Exfiltration Over Alternative Protocol
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: HHS OCR — corrective action documentation obtained
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

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.