TENNESSEEHackingHealthcareHealthcareAbuse Of FunctionalityBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedDownstream VictimsHealth (basic)Identity (basic)MediumResolved

Cogent Healthcare, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Aug 30, 2013

To disclose

—

Affected

32,000

Confidence

92%

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

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.

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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

Aug 30, 2013

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.Confirmed32,000 affectedView incident

Name: Cogent Healthcare, Inc.
norm: cogent healthcare
Industry: Business Associate

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

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 32,000nationwide
Data types: Health (basic)Identity (basic)
HHS breach type: Theft
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Business associate
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

During the incident: BA privacy officer discovered that PHI was accessible on an FTP Internet site.
Breach report submitted to HHS on behalf of 24 covered entities (hospitalist service providers).
Changes made: OCR provided technical assistance on HIPAA Privacy and Security Rule BA requirements.
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: Aug 30, 2013
Raw hash: 1019ce883bcb85729e19118347a19109eee4a46a5bfbf9a1e3192b286ba90e3a

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Reporting entityCogent Healthcare, Inc.

Victim entityCogent Healthcare, Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseBA privacy officer discovered that PHI was accessible on an FTP Internet site.

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing