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ILLINOISAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial accountMediumResolved

Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Apr 26, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

8,000

Confidence

69%
Full breach record for Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services →8 incidents on file

Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services reported to HHS on 2018-04-26 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 8000 individuals. Breached information located on Paper/Films. A state employee inadvertently changed client addresses and mailed PHI to wrong recipients. The CE implemented additional administrative safeguards.

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

Apr 26, 2018

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.Confirmed8,000 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.