ILAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICMediumResolved
RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER
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Full breach record for RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER →On September 9, 2015, business associate Standard Register erroneously mailed retirement announcements on behalf of Rush University Medical Center (IL), resulting in misdirected letters sent to 1,529 wrong patients. Breached information (paper/films) included patients' names only. The covered entity notified HHS, media, and affected individuals, published substitute notice, entered into a BA agreement with Standard Register, and established quality-control procedures for mass mailings. OCR confirmed corrective actions were implemented.
HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified8 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,529 affectedView incident
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
- Nov 6, 2015
- Raw hash
- ce0955009f4d304ee5874935523df1a88aae25ce16677a0606539e06e42f2894
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTERnorm: rush university medical center
- Domain
- rush.edu
- Industry
- Health Care Services
Victim entity
- Name
- RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTERnorm: rush university medical center
- Domain
- rush.edu
- Industry
- Health Care Services
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Sep 9, 2015
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 1,529
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access· Standard Register
- Threat actor
- Partner
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR — breach notification submitted; OCR obtained documentation confirming corrective actions
- Third party
- via Standard Register
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 8 weeks(58 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- HHS notified
- Discovery-date grounding
- occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status HIPAA Discovered: Sep 9, 2015→ Notified: not extracted— regulatory submission HHS notified
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.