ILLINOISSocial EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)HighResolved

Advanced Fertility Center of Chicago

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 1, 2016

To disclose

—

Affected

19,000

Confidence

98%

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Advanced Fertility Center of Chicago (IL) reported to HHS on 2016-12-01 a Hacking/IT Incident affecting 19,000 individuals. An employee was the victim of an email phishing scheme, exposing PHI including names, addresses, dates of birth, driver's license numbers, Social Security numbers, diagnoses/conditions, lab results, medications, and other treatment information. Breached information was located on Electronic Medical Records and Network Servers. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, and implemented additional safeguards and workforce retraining.

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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

Dec 1, 2016

Filed

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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.Confirmed19,000 affectedView incident

Name: Advanced Fertility Center of Chicago
norm: advanced fertility center of chicago
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Advanced Fertility Center of Chicago
norm: advanced fertility center of chicago
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 19,000nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incident
Where the data lived: Electronic medical recordNetwork server
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 PhishingT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: HHS OCR notified
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media
Implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards
Retrained workforce members on identifying fraudulent email communications
Changes made: Additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards implemented
Workforce retraining on phishing email identification
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: Dec 1, 2016
Raw hash: 2ece1ebfa04b7856f311f27b893804dc5507a8a9786538299a1f576b2db34494

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Reporting entityAdvanced Fertility Center of Chicago

Victim entityAdvanced Fertility Center of Chicago

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS, affected individuals, and the media

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing