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Breach notice filed by Lake County Health Department (February 2020)

Organization named: Lake County Health Department Provisional: identity as filed, not yet matched to the directory
Type as the source lists it: Unauthorized Access/Disclosure

What the sources say

HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) Primary notice

Posted on the HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal with a submission date of Feb. 19, 2020.

Organization as reported
Lake County Health Department, IL
Entity type as reported
Healthcare Provider
Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
Location of information as reported
Email
Submission date
Feb. 19, 2020
Observed by BreachRecords
2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 12992, row:4131)
Archived copy
Held in the private archive (provenance)

The covered entity (CE), Lake County Health Department, reported that an employee sent an unencrypted email to his personal email account that contained the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 14,488 individuals. The ePHI involved included names and other identifying information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the CE sanctioned the responsible employee and implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect its ePHI. All workforce members were retrained. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.

The source's own words, from the revision above.

Figures, per source

  • 14,488 individuals affected (total reported), according to the HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal, source date Feb. 19, 2020, revision observed 2026-10-18.

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Timeline

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  • Submission date (HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal)
  • Observed by BreachRecords (revision 12992)
  • Approved by a reviewer

Organizations linked by a reviewer

  • Lake County Health Department Named as the covered entity Provisional: identity as filed, not yet matched to the directory Linked 2026-10-19, method provisional.

Archived evidence

  • 3dbc27dd5742e041cc1e7fe18cc669e2901fbd3b86b7007ed27948ff4d406e1f
    text/csv, 5,530,996 bytes, retrieved from HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal, 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC. Archived privately · Provenance · Source page

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