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AMITA Health Medical Group Primary Care- Hoffman Estates

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Nov 30, 2021

To disclose

Affected

1,647

Confidence

98%
Full breach record for AMITA Health Medical Group Primary Care- Hoffman Estates

AMITA Health Medical Group Primary Care - Hoffman Estates (IL) reported to HHS on 2021-11-30 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 1,647 individuals. An employee transmitted a mass email to patients without using the blind carbon copy (BCC) function, exposing patient names and email addresses via Email. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and media. Mitigation included sanctioning and retraining the responsible employees.

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

Nov 30, 2021

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.Confirmed1,647 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.