TNHackingHealthcareHealthcareAbuse Of FunctionalityBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedDownstream VictimsHEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASICMediumResolved
Cogent Healthcare, Inc.
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Full breach record for Cogent Healthcare, Inc. →Cogent Healthcare, Inc. (TN), a business associate providing management services for 24 hospitalist service providers, reported a breach to HHS on 2013-08-30 affecting approximately 32,000 individuals. The BA's privacy officer discovered that PHI was publicly accessible on an FTP Internet site. Exposed data included patient names, physicians' names, dates of birth, diagnoses, treatment summaries, medical histories, and medical record numbers. OCR determined the incident predated the Sept. 23, 2013 BA enforcement date and provided technical assistance.
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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed32,000 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- 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
- Aug 30, 2013
- Raw hash
- 1019ce883bcb85729e19118347a19109eee4a46a5bfbf9a1e3192b286ba90e3a
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Cogent Healthcare, Inc.norm: cogent healthcare
- Industry
- Business Associate
Victim entity
- Name
- Cogent Healthcare, Inc.norm: cogent healthcare
- Industry
- Business Associate
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 32,000
- Data types
- HEALTH_BASICIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1530 Data from Cloud Storage
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- HHS OCR provided technical assistance regarding current HIPAA Privacy and Security Rule Business Associate requirements.
- Third party
- via Cogent Healthcare, Inc.business associate
- Initial access
- external_remote_services
Compliance
- 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
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.