Cogent Healthcare Data Breach (2013)

Cogent Healthcare announced late last week that M2ComSys, the organization’s transcription contractor, had exposed 32,000 patients’ data across 48 states. M2ComSys, according to the Tennessean, left physician notes available to the public from May 5 to June 24 because it didn’t activate a firewall. The physician notes included information such as physician’s name, patients’ date of birth, diagnosis descriptions, summaries of treatments provided, medical histories and medical record numbers. Cogent said that patients’ medical records and Social Security numbers were not revealed.* As a result of the breach, Cogent said that it’s ending its relationship with M2ComSys and has collaborated with Google to ensure there are no remnants of exposed data.