Health Plan · Archived
Schaeffler Group USA
550 individuals · submitted April 2, 2015
About this report
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of South Carolina, a business associate (BA) of Schaeffler Group USA, the covered entity (CE), stored the CE’s electronic protected health information (ePHI) on computer servers belonging to its parent corporation, Anthem, Inc. Anthem experienced a series of cyberattacks which exposed the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of almost 79 million people, affecting 550 individuals who received health insurance from the CE. The ePHI involved included names, social security numbers, medical identification numbers, addresses, dates of birth, email addresses, and employment information. OCR opened a separate review of Anthem, which resulted in Anthem agreeing to pay a monetary settlement and undertaking a robust corrective action plan to comply with the HIPAA Rules.
Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.
- Organization
- Schaeffler Group USA
- State
- SC
- Entity type
- Health Plan
- Individuals affected
- 550
- Submission date
- April 2, 2015
- Breach type
- Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information
- Network Server
- Business associate present
- No
- OCR status
- Archived
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