ILLINOISPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHighResolved

Cook County Health

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Aug 20, 2010

To disclose

—

Affected

7,081

Confidence

69%

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

Cook County Health & Hospitals System reported to HHS on 2010-08-20 a Theft affecting 7081 individuals. Breached information located on Laptop. An employee's laptop was stolen from a locked office; it contained PHI (names, DOB, SSN) of approximately 7,000 individuals. The entity notified affected individuals, posted notices, and retrained staff.

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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

Aug 20, 2010

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.Confirmed7,081 affectedView incident

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

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

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 7,081nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Theft
Where the data lived: Laptop
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Submitted breach notification to HHS

During the incident: Notified those individuals reasonably believed to have been affected by the breach
Placed notice on its website and with a local news center
Changes made: Established stringent computer security guidelines
Retrained its staff in the new requirements
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: Aug 20, 2010
Raw hash: fe81a61f2dbf1cddd985120f2f4cb9333d3a27816b5702bd7f795dbf30b6f245

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Reporting entityCook County Health

Victim entityCook County Health

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified those individuals reasonably believed to have been affected by the breach

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing