ILPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHighResolved
W.W. GRAINGER, INC.
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Full breach record for W.W. GRAINGER, INC. →W. W. Grainger, Inc. reported to HHS on 2017-09-18 a Theft affecting 1594 individuals. Breached information located on Laptop. An employee's laptop containing PHI (names, DOB, SSN, addresses) was stolen from an unlocked vehicle. WWGI implemented administrative safeguards and retrained staff.
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.
This filing is one of 5 about the same incident.View merged incident
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_8607cff885381d4dWashington State AGfiled 2017-09-18Candidate
- bd_ac98d18c1dadc52fMontana State AGfiled 2017-09-18Verified
- bd_65e06fe2ce675289California State AGfiled 2017-09-19(1d gap)Verified
- bd_9ca68e4c68eb46f8Oregon State AGfiled 2017-09-20(2d gap)Verified
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
- Sep 18, 2017
- Raw hash
- 4daa2e18c61b09ad0023d4743c5286efd1a1d5f485b95a848e38cd8664a922c1
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- W.W. GRAINGER, INC.norm: ww grainger
- Domain
- grainger.com
- Industry
- Insurance — Health
Victim entity
- Name
- W.W. GRAINGER, INC.norm: ww grainger
- Domain
- grainger.com
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 1,594
- Data types
- PHIHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- Notified HHSOCR investigationOCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted
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
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.