ILLINOISAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Health (basic)MediumResolved

Midwestern Regional Medical Center, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jul 12, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

2,675

Confidence

97%

Full breach record for Midwestern Regional Medical Center, Inc. →

Midwestern Regional Medical Center, Inc. (IL) reported to HHS OCR on 2018-07-12 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 2,675 individuals. PHI — including names, states of residence, diagnoses, and in some cases photos and/or videos — was posted without authorization on a public bulletin board for cancer survivors. Breached information located in an 'Other' location type. The CE notified all affected individuals and the media, and updated its patient authorization policy and forms to comply with the HIPAA Privacy Rule. No business associate was involved.

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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

Jul 12, 2018

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.Confirmed2,675 affectedView incident

Name: Midwestern Regional Medical Center, Inc.
norm: midwestern regional medical center
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Midwestern Regional Medical Center, Inc.
norm: midwestern regional medical center
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 2,675nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Health (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Other
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: HHS OCR

During the incident: Notified all affected individuals
Notified the media
Updated patient authorization policy
Revised patient authorization forms to comply with HIPAA Privacy Rule
Changes made: Updated patient authorization policy
Revised patient authorization forms to be in compliance with the HIPAA Privacy Rule
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: Jul 12, 2018
Raw hash: 35c298be6fe8235eae3753826c1bcc371ca05a4e393b91fa2d327606af71eff5

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Reporting entityMidwestern Regional Medical Center, Inc.

Victim entityMidwestern Regional Medical Center, Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified all affected individuals

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing