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 July 25, 2012.
- Organization as reported
- The Surgeons of Lake County, LLC, IL
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- July 25, 2012
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 15595, row:6734)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
The Surgeons of Lake County, LLC, the covered entity (CE), reported that it was the victim of a ransomware attack that affected the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of approximately 7,067 individuals. The ePHI involved included names, addresses, Social Security numbers, financial information, diagnoses/conditions, lab results, medications prescribed, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, the media, and provided substitute notice. Affected individuals were also provided complimentary credit monitoring services. In its mitigation efforts, the CE retrained its employees and implemented additional technical and administrative safeguards to better protect its sensitive data. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.