FLORIDAMisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseKnowledge AbuseCustomer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedIdentity (basic)Health (basic)MediumResolved

Gulf Coast Health Care Services Inc

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Oct 15, 2012

To disclose

—

Affected

13,000

Confidence

95%

Full breach record for Gulf Coast Health Care Services Inc →

Gulf Coast Health Care Services Inc (FL, Healthcare Provider) reported to HHS OCR on 2012-10-15 a multi-type breach (Hacking/IT Incident, Theft, Unauthorized Access/Disclosure) affecting 13,000 individuals. Two former employees took a list of patient information—names, dates of birth, addresses, and phone numbers for every active and inactive patient—to a competitor's office. Breached information located on Network Server. The CE ceased operations on 2013-10-31 and dissolved with the Florida Secretary of State on 2015-07-27. OCR obtained assurances the entity is no longer in business.

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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

Oct 15, 2012

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.Confirmed13,000 affectedView incident

Name: Gulf Coast Health Care Services Inc
norm: gulf coast health care
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Gulf Coast Health Care Services Inc
norm: gulf coast health care
Industry: Health Care Services
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 13,000nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Health (basic)
HHS breach type: Hacking / IT incidentTheftUnauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Network server
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: HHS OCR obtained assurances that the covered entity is no longer in business.
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: OCR investigation completed; entity ceased operations on October 31, 2013
Entity filed for voluntary dissolution with Florida Secretary of State effective July 27, 2015
Changes made: Covered entity ceased operations
Filed for voluntary dissolution with the Florida Secretary of State
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: Oct 15, 2012
Raw hash: 2a133c5f9b4bc43a2ee2fda60a65c284e0ce863109791270f515e2c298801fd2

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Reporting entityGulf Coast Health Care Services Inc

Victim entityGulf Coast Health Care Services Inc

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseOCR investigation completed; entity ceased operations on October 31, 2013

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing