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ILLINOISAccidentalHealthcareGovernmentHealthcareMisdeliveryProgramming ErrorCustomer Data InvolvedBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Health (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHighResolved

Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services

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Severity

High

Discovered

Filed

Jul 15, 2013

To disclose

Affected

3,133

Confidence

95%
Full breach record for Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services8 incidents on file

Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services reported to HHS on 2013-07-15 a Hacking/IT Incident (computer program error causing misdelivery) affecting 3,133 individuals. Business associate Family Health Network mailed member identification cards to wrong addresses due to a computer program error. PHI exposed included names, dates of birth, and State-issued Medicaid numbers. The BA corrected the conversion process, reviewed privacy policies, and notified HHS, the CE, affected individuals, and the media. OCR obtained documented assurances of corrective action.

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

Jul 15, 2013

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.Confirmed3,133 affectedView incident

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.