ILLINOISAccidentalHealthcareGovernmentHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)HighResolved

Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 22, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

8,848

Confidence

98%

Full breach record for Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services →8 incidents on file

Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (IL Health Plan) reported to HHS on 2021-03-22 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 8,848 individuals. An employee mailed PHI to the wrong recipients. Breached information on Paper/Films included names, dates of birth, addresses, SSNs, financial information, diagnoses, conditions, citizenship status, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, individuals, and media, and implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards. OCR provided technical assistance.

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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

Mar 22, 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.Confirmed8,848 affectedView incident

Name: Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services
norm: illinois department of healthcare and family
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services
norm: illinois department of healthcare and family
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultGovernmentllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 8,848nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHealth (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: OCR provided technical assistance regarding the HIPAA Rules.
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Implemented additional administrative safeguards
Implemented additional technical safeguards
Changes made: Additional administrative safeguards implemented
Additional technical safeguards implemented
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: Mar 22, 2021
Raw hash: 7787efb2b0b0828ff65cacb753862f1f5d670ad766237cb7b3bae5a1c64edd3d

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Reporting entityIllinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services

Victim entityIllinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing