MisuseHealthcareHealthcareData MishandlingEmployee Data InvolvedGovernment IDIdentity (basic)EmploymentMediumContained

CARDINAL HEALTH, INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jun 1, 2010

Filed

Sep 7, 2010

To disclose

12 weeks

Affected

4state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for CARDINAL HEALTH, INC. →4 incidents on file

Cardinal Health notified the NH Attorney General of a data security event involving the loss of decommissioned computers. An IT employee admitted to selling a laptop on eBay, leading to an inventory audit that revealed 9 laptops and 2 desktops were missing. One missing laptop contained personal information (SSN, birth date, employee number) for current/former employees and job applicants. Approximately 4 New Hampshire residents were affected. The employee was terminated, and remediation steps included policy revisions, surveillance installation, and mandatory training. Credit monitoring was offered to affected individuals.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 14 weeks / 98 days

Jun 1, 2010

Discovered

Sep 7, 2010

Filed

vs. sector median

+1 wks slower

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_6edcaf28692e43542010-09-13 · +6dVerified

Name: CARDINAL HEALTH, INC.
norm: cardinal health
Domain: cardinal.com

Name: CARDINAL HEALTH, INC.
norm: cardinal health
Domain: cardinal.com
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: Jun 1, 2010
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Sep 7, 2010
Affected individuals: 4state-resident count only
Data types: Government IDIdentity (basic)Employment
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Insider
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Recovered the laptop sold on eBay
Conducted an investigation
Terminated the employment of the IT employee
Re-inventoried computers, including all decommissioned computers
Analyzed the data from the missing computers
Notified affected employees and applicants
Offered credit monitoring service from Debix for one year at no cost
Changes made: Reviewed internal procedures concerning decommissioned computers
Restricted access to inventory rooms where computers are stored
Installed a surveillance camera to monitor inventory room activity
Revised and improved decommissioned computer destruction policy
Instituted mandatory training for all applicable IT employees to reinforce proper disposal practices
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 12 weeks(84 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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New Hampshire State AGSep 7 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+6d

Pattern: first filing Sep 7 (NH), last Sep 13 (MA) — a 6-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/cardinal-health-20100907.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 7, 2010
Raw hash: aaa084494b2381b2f429d89448badf3f84446cc39dc4e5adbbeb68328dfb7a9f

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityCARDINAL HEALTH, INC.

Victim entityCARDINAL HEALTH, INC.

Incidentdiscovered Jun 1, 2010

Stated responseRecovered the laptop sold on eBay

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov