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

W.W. GRAINGER, INC.

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Sep 18, 2017

To disclose

—

Affected

1,594

Linked

8 filings

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for W.W. GRAINGER, INC. →3 incidents on file

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.

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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

Sep 18, 2017

Filed

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Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

This filing is one of 8 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (7) · sorted by filing gap

Washington State AGbd_8607cff885381d4d2017-09-18Candidate
New Hampshire State AGbd_933dda5a75b2fa4d2017-09-18Verified
Montana State AGbd_ac98d18c1dadc52f2017-09-18Verified
California State AGbd_65e06fe2ce6752892017-09-19 · +1dVerified

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Massachusetts State AGbd_f196cd845aedd1db2017-09-19 · +1dVerified
Oregon State AGbd_9ca68e4c68eb46f82017-09-20 · +2dVerified
South Carolina State AGbd_260a4c6ff222aef92017-09-22 · +4dVerified

Name: W.W. GRAINGER, INC.
norm: ww grainger
Domain: grainger.com
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: W.W. GRAINGER, INC.
norm: ww grainger
Domain: grainger.com
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,594nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Theft
Where the data lived: Laptop
Covered-entity type: Health plan
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

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Provided substitute notice
Implemented additional administrative safeguards
Retrained its staff
Changes made: Implemented additional administrative safeguards
Retrained its staff
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.

Filing propagation · 8 filings · 8 states

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Washington State AGSep 18 · first

New Hampshire State AGSep 18 · first

Montana State AGSep 18 · first

HHS OCRSep 18 · first · this page

California State AG+1d

Massachusetts State AG+1d

Oregon State AG+2d

South Carolina State AG+4d

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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: Sep 18, 2017
Raw hash: 4daa2e18c61b09ad0023d4743c5286efd1a1d5f485b95a848e38cd8664a922c1

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (7) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityW.W. GRAINGER, INC.

Victim entityW.W. GRAINGER, INC.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing