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ILLINOISAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Cook County Health

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 11, 2014

To disclose

—

Affected

22,511

Confidence

95%
Full breach record for Cook County Health →10 incidents on file

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.

Incident timeline

Nov 12, 2013

Begins

Jan 11, 2014

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed22,511 affectedView incident

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.