VERMONTMisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDMediumResolved

NORTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER, INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Aug 9, 2022

To disclose

—

Affected

686

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for NORTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER, INC. →2 incidents on file

Northwestern Medical Center reported to HHS on 2022-08-09 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 686 individuals. Breached information located on Electronic Medical Record. An employee impermissibly accessed PHI including names, addresses, SSNs, and diagnoses.

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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

Aug 9, 2022

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.Confirmed686 affectedView incident

Name: NORTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER, INC.
norm: northwestern medical center
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: NORTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER, INC.
norm: northwestern medical center
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 686nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Electronic medical record
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified HHS
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Notified HHS
Notified affected individuals
Notified the media
Created a call center for questions or concerns
Sanctioned the employee responsible
Strengthened administrative and security safeguards
Retrained all staff
Changes made: Strengthened administrative and security safeguards
Retrained all staff
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: Aug 9, 2022
Raw hash: b1744a1f4c25f185794d97f92ff1503df9b056912f04fbd99970b1df2f057226

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Reporting entityNORTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER, INC.

Victim entityNORTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER, INC.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseNotified HHS

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing