Health Data Breach Tracker/CA

Health Plan · Archived

SCAN Health Plan

87,069 individuals · submitted August 22, 2016

About this report

Person(s) with electronic account access impermissibly used a sales database containing the protected health information of the covered entity's (CE) prospective and enrolled members. Approximately 87,069 individuals were affected. The electronic PHI (ePHI) involved in the breach included names, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, social security numbers (of 498 individuals), and sales call notes related to diagnoses/health conditions, medications, and physicians' names. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, affected individual, and the media. Following the breach, the CE implemented procedures to increase the monitoring of the database and enhanced its technical security procedures regarding authentication for database access. OCR’s investigation resulted in the CE enhancing its practices for safeguarding ePHI.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
SCAN Health Plan
State
CA
Entity type
Health Plan
Individuals affected
87,069
Submission date
August 22, 2016
Breach type
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
Location of information
Other
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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