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Breach notice filed by Cogent Healthcare, Inc. (August 2013)

Organization named: Cogent Healthcare, Inc. Provisional: identity as filed, not yet matched to the directory
Type as the source lists it: Theft

What the sources say

HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) Primary notice

Posted on the HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal with a submission date of Aug. 30, 2013.

Organization as reported
Cogent Healthcare, Inc., TN
Entity type as reported
Business Associate
Category as reported
Theft
Location of information as reported
Network Server
Submission date
Aug. 30, 2013
Observed by BreachRecords
2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 15336, row:6475)
Archived copy
Held in the private archive (provenance)

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. \ \

The source's own words, from the revision above.

Figures, per source

  • 32,000 individuals affected (total reported), according to the HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal, source date Aug. 30, 2013, revision observed 2026-10-18.

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Timeline

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  • Submission date (HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal)
  • Observed by BreachRecords (revision 15336)
  • Approved by a reviewer

Organizations linked by a reviewer

  • Cogent Healthcare, Inc. Named as a service provider Provisional: identity as filed, not yet matched to the directory Linked 2026-10-19, method provisional.

Archived evidence

  • 3dbc27dd5742e041cc1e7fe18cc669e2901fbd3b86b7007ed27948ff4d406e1f
    text/csv, 5,530,996 bytes, retrieved from HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal, 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC. Archived privately · Provenance · Source page

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