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ILLINOISMisuseHealthcareGovernmentHealthcareEmail MisuseCustomer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Lake County Health Department and Community Health Center

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Nov 5, 2020

To disclose

—

Affected

3,815

Confidence

95%
Full breach record for Lake County Health Department and Community Health Center →5 incidents on file

Lake County Health Department and Community Health Center reported to HHS on 2020-11-05 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 3,815 individuals. An employee emailed PHI — including names, addresses, dates of birth, and lab results — to unauthorized entities via email. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, and responded by sanctioning and retraining the responsible employee and revising its policies and procedures.

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 5, 2020

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.Confirmed3,815 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.