Health Data Breach Tracker/AK

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Southcentral Foundation

14,719 individuals · submitted December 16, 2016

About this report

Southcentral Foundation (SCF), the covered entity (CE), reported that two SCF employee email accounts were compromised. The breach affected 14,719 individuals. The types of PHI involved included names, addresses, dates of birth, social security numbers, medical record numbers, clinical information, lab results, medications prescribed, treatment information, and claims information. SCF disabled the accounts to stop any further access. As a result of the breach, SCF revised its policies and procedures to include additional security measures, strengthened its password requirements, and retrained its staff. The CE provided affected individuals with free credit monitoring.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Southcentral Foundation
State
AK
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
14,719
Submission date
December 16, 2016
Breach type
Hacking/IT Incident
Location of information
Email
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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