Colors of imported illustrator files don't match indesign colors

I'll be honest: I'm likely missing something really basic. This is really frustrating, though.
The simple version: when I drag an Illustrator file into my InDesign document, its colors don't match the colors of shapes in the InDesign document drawn with the same color values.
The long version:
I'm working on a resume document. I've created a logo in Illustrator - the document is in CMYK color mode and uses SWOP v2 color space. I've dragged the file into InDesign, where I have some basic geometric shapes that intersect the logo. The InDesign document is also set to CMYK and is using the SWOP v2 color space. I've noticed, however, that the colors of my logo (which, again, was imported from Illustrator) do not match the colors of shapes drawn natively in InDesign even when their hexadecimal color values are identical. To further this point. I created a shape in InDesign with color #86c8cf. I then copied the value #86c8cf into Illustrator and drew a shape using that color. I imported that Illustrator shape into InDesign and placed the Illustrator Shape and the native InDesign shapes side by side. I even exported to PDF and pulled it up in preview to proof it. The colors, while very similar, are NOT the same color.
Am I missing something really obvious? Or are these two programs not at all working together like they're always said to do so well?

Dunno why. Which versions of ID/AI? Not that it should matter, I get the same results with CS6 and CC2014.
One square in ID is native, the other from a placed AI file--though drag and drop are the same results.
Acrobat, hovering over one square...
And over the other square...
I used your hex values in Illy, used Illy's CMYK values in ID.
Mike

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