Health Data Breach Tracker/FL

Health Plan · Archived

Sunshine State Health Plan, Inc.

2,000 individuals · submitted June 7, 2019

About this report

The covered entity (CE), Sunshine State Health Plan, reported that workforce members of its business associate (BA), Consumer Direct, were inadvertently given administrative access rights to its portal that contained the protected health information (PHI) of 2,544 individuals. The PHI involved included names, home addresses, and email addresses. In its mitigation efforts, the BA implemented additional administrative and technical safeguards and retrained it staff. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. OCR obtained assurances that the BA implemented the corrective actions noted.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Sunshine State Health Plan, Inc.
State
FL
Entity type
Health Plan
Individuals affected
2,000
Submission date
June 7, 2019
Breach type
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
Location of information
Other
Business associate present
Yes
OCR status
Archived

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