One linked filing — more sources may join as they report · filed Oct 7, 2016. View entity profile → Other incidents for this victim →
incident inc_ce4f96a3ec4843b1 · merge_method deterministic
Discovered → first regulatory filing
Not recorded for this incident
Discovery variance · Leak precedence · Materiality delta · SEC filing delay · Filing span — no leak-site claim in this cluster; no SEC 8-K in this cluster; needs two dated filings.
PHI · Health (basic) · Identity (basic)
IL
all HHS OCR
Earliest sighting first · deep chronology in Litigation Timeline
Apr 18, 2016
When the intrusion reportedly occurred, per the linked filings
Apr 18, 2016
Reported by HHS OCR filing
Northwest Community Healthcare reported to HHS on 2016-10-07 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 540 individuals. Breached information located on Other Portable Electronic Device. A business associate left an FTP port open, exposing patient PHI (names, DOB, SSN) on the internet. The CE suspended the BA and required data destruction.
Affected (this filing): 540
About this clustering
DisclosureLens links filings into incidents through layered matchers: deterministic rules (same source document, multistate filings of one breach, tight-window same-victim pairs), a weighted-similarity scorer for cross-source candidates, and an operator review queue for everything uncertain. Each link records its own method and confidence — shown per filing in the timeline below. The system defaults to NOT merging when uncertain, because a false merge (collapsing two unrelated breaches) is more harmful than a false split (showing related filings separately); uncertain pairs route to human review instead of auto-merging. Filing summaries shown in the timeline are AI-generated extracts — verify each against its linked source.