TENNESSEEPhysicalHealthcareHealthcareTheftBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDHighContained

Cogent Healthcare, Inc.

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Nov 25, 2009

To disclose

—

Affected

6,400

Confidence

98%

Full breach record for Cogent Healthcare, Inc. →3 incidents on file

Cogent Healthcare, Inc. (TN, Business Associate) reported to HHS OCR on 2009-11-25 a laptop theft affecting 6,400 individuals. A laptop was stolen from a locked office at Aurora St. Lukes Medical Center. Breached information — stored on the laptop — included patient names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, medical record numbers, and in some cases diagnosis codes. Corrective actions included accelerated laptop encryption, improved physical security, staff training, and encryption of portable media.

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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

Nov 25, 2009

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed6,400 affectedView incident

Name: Cogent Healthcare, Inc.
norm: cogent healthcare

Name: Cogent Healthcare, Inc.
norm: cogent healthcare
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 6,400nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Theft
Where the data lived: Laptop
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: External

During the incident: Reported breach to HHS OCR
Corrective action plan implemented at Aurora St. Lukes Medical Center
Changes made: Accelerated encryption of all laptop hard drives
Improved physical locks on the office where the theft occurred
Staff training on appropriate use and storage of devices containing ePHI
Encryption of portable flash drives and Blackberry devices
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: HHS notified
Discovery-date grounding: no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
HIPAA
Discovered: not extracted
→ Notified: not extracted
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: not extracted → Notified: not extracted	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

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://ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/breach/breach_report.jsf
DisclosureLens renders the full SEC/HHS filing inline below from the originating regulator’s public record (§4.5 fair report privilege).
Filed at: Nov 25, 2009
Raw hash: 4753183db0f6884a11df975bae0f130b2f8bb7566e46330541c60671d3f28630

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Reporting entityCogent Healthcare, Inc.

Victim entityCogent Healthcare, Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseReported breach to HHS OCR

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing