MisuseHealthcareProfessional ServicesHealthcarePrivilege AbuseTheftEmployee Data InvolvedTargetedGovernment IDPIIMediumContained

CARDINAL HEALTH, INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Aug 1, 2010

Filed

Oct 8, 2010

To disclose

10 weeks

Affected

3state residents only

Confidence

65%

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

Cardinal Health notified the NH AG of a security incident at its Grand Prairie, TX facility. An IT employee improperly disposed of/sold decommissioned computers. Investigation revealed 60 missing computers; 2 contained SSNs and employee numbers. 3 NH residents affected. Employee terminated. Remediation includes laptop encryption, policy revisions, and credit monitoring offered to affected individuals.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 10 weeks / 68 days

Aug 1, 2010

Begins

Aug 1, 2010

Discovered

Oct 8, 2010

Filed

vs. sector median

1 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed3 affectedView incident

Name: CARDINAL HEALTH, INC.
norm: cardinal health

Name: CARDINAL HEALTH, INC.
norm: cardinal health
Industry: HealthcarellmProfessional Servicesllm

Discovered: Aug 1, 2010
Breach occurred: Aug 1, 2010 – Aug 24, 2010
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Oct 8, 2010
Affected individuals: 3state-resident count only
Data types: Government IDPII
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Insider
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: InternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Attorney General's OfficeReported to Grand Prairie Police Department
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Suspended the employee pending the outcome of the investigation
Terminated the employee on August 24, 2010
Reported the matter to the Grand Prairie Police Department
Re-inventoried computers at the facility
Analyzed data from missing computers
Notified affected employees and applicants
Offered 12 months of complimentary credit monitoring and identity theft insurance through Debix
Changes made: All laptops will be encrypted no later than the end of December 2010
IT Department will initiate a management review and sign-off requirement on all computer disposal requests
Created a new position at Corporate responsible for inventory oversight across all sites
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: 10 weeks(68 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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-20101008.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Oct 8, 2010
Raw hash: f5ac80b252addb09dc0bc9856c63b68db2979d5f65300880ca399f62acf6cb2a

Reporting entityCARDINAL HEALTH, INC.

Victim entityCARDINAL HEALTH, INC.

Incidentdiscovered Aug 1, 2010

Stated responseSuspended the employee pending the outcome of the investigation

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov