ILLINOISMisuseHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareEmail MisuseCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDMediumResolved

Village of Oak Park, Illinois

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Aug 18, 2016

To disclose

—

Affected

688

Confidence

95%

Full breach record for Village of Oak Park, Illinois →

Village of Oak Park, Illinois (VOPI), a Health Plan covered entity, reported to HHS OCR on 2016-08-18 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 688 individuals. An employee emailed spreadsheets containing PHI — including names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and health insurance information — to a personal email account. VOPI terminated the responsible employee, notified affected individuals and media, posted notice on its website, and strengthened email monitoring with spam filtering and encryption technologies. Breached information located on Email.

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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 18, 2016

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.Confirmed688 affectedView incident

Name: Village of Oak Park, Illinois
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Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: Village of Oak Park, Illinois
norm: village of oak park illinois
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource defaultFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 688nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Health plan
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1048 Exfiltration Over Alternative Protocol
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: HHS OCR
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Employee responsible for breach was terminated
Notified all affected individuals
Notified prominent media outlets
Posted breach notice on VOPI website
Strengthened email monitoring capabilities
Incorporated spam and encryption technologies
Changes made: Enhanced email monitoring and DLP controls
Deployed encryption and anti-spam technologies
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 18, 2016
Raw hash: 4f7b8261229a8ca15a1dc6ccee246bb8747ebdfa25ff167eedf97eba4e5c49d0

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Reporting entityVillage of Oak Park, Illinois

Victim entityVillage of Oak Park, Illinois

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseEmployee responsible for breach was terminated

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing