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Cogent Healthcare

Disclosed Aug 8, 201313 years ago32,000 affectedConfirmed

Official notice

Cogent Healthcare, Inc., a business associate (BA) providing management services for 24 providers of hospitalist services, submitted a breach report to HHS on behalf of these covered entities. The BA's privacy officer found that protected health information (PHI) for which the BA was responsible was accessible on a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) Internet site. The PHI involved in the breach affected approximately 32,151 individuals and included patients' names, physicians' names, dates of birth, diagnoses, treatment summaries, medical histories, medical record numbers and related information. \ \OCR determined that the reporting entity is a BA and the incident occurred prior to the September 23, 2013, enforcement date. OCR provided the BA with technical assistance regarding current HIPAA Privacy and Security Rule BA requirements. \ \

What is known

People affected32,000 (as reported to HHS)
DisclosedAug 8, 2013
HappenedMay 5, 2013
AttackLost or stolen device
Data exposedNames, Health
SectorHealthcare · US
StatusConfirmed

Sources

Source
California Attorney General breach notice: Cogent Healthcareoag.ca.gov · Official notice
HHS OCR breach report (archive, resolved): Cogent Healthcare (Business Associate, TN)ocrportal.hhs.gov · Official notice

Notices filed

WhereFiledPeople
California AGresidents of CAAug 8, 2013
HHS archivetotalAug 30, 201332,000

Other breaches at Cogent Healthcare

BreachAffected
Disclosed Sep 2, 2014Sep 2, 201412 years agoUnknown
Disclosed Nov 25, 2009Nov 25, 200916 years agoLost or stolen device6,400
History of this record
  • 2026-09-25 · attack: unknown to lost-device · backfill source
  • 2026-09-25 · data_types: [] to ["names","health"] · backfill source
  • 2026-09-25 · records_basis: empty to hhs · backfill source
  • 2026-09-25 · records: empty to 32000 · backfill source
  • 2026-09-25 · summary: empty to Cogent Healthcare, Inc., a business associate (BA) providing management services for 24 providers of hospitalist services, submitted a breach report to HHS on behalf of these covered entities. The BA's privacy officer found that protected h · backfill source
  • 2026-09-25 · added · backfill source

First seen 2026-09-25 (California AG), confirmed by California AG. Record counts are as reported. Not legal advice.

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