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ILLINOISPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Medium

NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Jul 27, 2012

To disclose

Affected

4,211

Confidence

68%
Full breach record for NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL2 incidents on file

Northwestern Memorial Hospital reported to HHS on 2012-07-27 a Theft affecting 4211 individuals. Breached information located on Laptop, Other Portable Electronic Device.

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

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Jul 27, 2012

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.Confirmed4,211 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.