CALIFORNIAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisconfigurationCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government IDCriticalResolved

Cottage Health System

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Severity

Critical

Financial impact

$3.00M

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 1, 2015

To disclose

—

Affected

11,000

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

68%

Full breach record for Cottage Health System →2 incidents on file

Cottage Health reported to HHS on 2015-12-01 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 11000 individuals. Breached information located on Network Server. The breach involved misconfigured server settings exposing ePHI including patient names, addresses, DOBs, SSNs, and medical records. Cottage Health settled with OCR for $3 million.

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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

Dec 1, 2015

Filed

—

Corroborated · see linked filings

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

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

California State AGbd_9e165c7d71cec9af2015-12-01Verified
Montana State AGbd_c2404fbd450f96c72015-12-03 · +2dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_58c53dbe79610fe32015-12-07 · +6dVerified

Name: Cottage Health System
norm: cottage health system
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Cottage Health System
norm: cottage health system
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 11,000nationwide
Data types: PHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Government ID
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Regulator citations: Notified HHS OCRSettled potential violations of the HIPAA Rules with OCR

During the incident: Agreed to pay $3 million to OCR
Adopted a substantial corrective action plan
Changes made: Undertook a robust corrective action plan to comply with the HIPAA Rules
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.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 3 states

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California State AGDec 1 · first

HHS OCRDec 1 · first · this page

Montana State AG+2d

Massachusetts State AG+6d

Pattern: first filing Dec 1 (CA), last Dec 7 (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://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: Dec 1, 2015
Raw hash: 8506b180564ba692be2bd4e181e8b5d7fa8b8df7320dfd7b086d263ff2e75afa

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Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityCottage Health System

Victim entityCottage Health System

IncidentMisconfiguration

Stated responseAgreed to pay $3 million to OCR

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing