DisclosureLens
FLORIDAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareDisposal ErrorCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Financial accountHigh

Leon A Cohen MM PA

bd_5574628112f1287b · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 8, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

2,122

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Leon A Cohen MM PA →

Leon A. Cohen, MM, PA, the covered entity (CE), reported that an employee improperly disposed of documents containing the protected health information (PHI) of 2,122 individuals. The PHI involved included names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, clinical information, diagnoses, health insurance information, and other treatment information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional administrative safeguards and retrained its staff. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions noted.

HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified
⚠ no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.
⚠ No discovery dateThe OCR public portal omits the discovery date, so the 60-day notification clock cannot be evaluated from this source — only that the filing was submitted.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Dec 8, 2018

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2,122 affectedView incident

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.