ILLINOISHackingHealthcareHealthcareBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDEmploymentMediumResolved

McDermott Will & Emery LLP

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 24, 2015

To disclose

—

Affected

880

Confidence

68%

McDermott Will & Emery LLP reported to HHS on 2015-03-24 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 880 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server. Business associate Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois (parent: Anthem, Inc.) experienced cyberattacks exposing ePHI including names, SSNs, and medical IDs.

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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

Mar 24, 2015

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed880 affectedView incident

Name: McDermott Will & Emery LLP
norm: mcdermott will & emery
Domain: mcdermottlaw.com
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: McDermott Will & Emery LLP
norm: mcdermott will & emery
Domain: mcdermottlaw.com
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 880nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDEmployment
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Health planBusiness associate involved
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing ApplicationT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: OCR reviewed the BA agreement and determined that it appeared to comply with the requirements of the HIPAA Privacy and Security RulesOCR opened a separate review of Anthem
Third party: via Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinoisbusiness associate
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: OCR reviewed the BA agreement
Anthem agreed to pay a monetary settlement
Anthem undertook a robust corrective action plan to comply with the HIPAA Rules
Changes made: Anthem undertook a robust corrective action plan to comply with the HIPAA Rules
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: Mar 24, 2015
Raw hash: 49277709e8c5f520146f4e4655b981da7df9079f095ed2913affc10c1e8a4afe

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Reporting entityMcDermott Will & Emery LLP

Victim entityMcDermott Will & Emery LLP

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseOCR reviewed the BA agreement

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing