DisclosureLens
ILLINOISPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial accountHigh

Advocate Health and Hospitals Corporation, d/b/a Advocate Medical Group

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Severity

High

Discovered

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Filed

Aug 23, 2013

To disclose

—

Affected

4,029,530

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

50%

Advocate Health and Hospitals Corporation, d/b/a Advocate Medical Group reported to HHS on 2013-08-23 a theft affecting 4,029,530 individuals. The investigation revealed multiple security failures, including the theft of an unencrypted laptop from a vehicle. Breached data included patient names, addresses, dates of birth, credit card numbers, and clinical and health insurance information. The breached information was located on a desktop computer.

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

Aug 23, 2013

Filed

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Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

This filing is one of 5 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 4 states

View merged incident ↗
New Hampshire State AGAug 23 · first
California State AGAug 23 · first
HHS OCRAug 23 · first · this page
Massachusetts State AG+3d
HHS OCR enforcement+1077d

Pattern: first filing Aug 23 (NH), last Aug 4 — a 1077-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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.