HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) Primary notice
Posted on the HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal with a submission date of April 5, 2024.
- Organization as reported
- BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, Inc., TN
- Entity type as reported
- Business Associate
- Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
- Location of information as reported
- Network Server
- Submission date
- April 5, 2024
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 9989, row:1128)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, the business associate (BA), reported that it inadvertently posted the protected health information (PHI) of 717 individuals to the Internet. The PHI involved included subscriber/member identification numbers. The BA notified HHS and affected individuals. In its mitigation efforts, the BA implemented additional administrative, technical, and security safeguards to better protect sensitive data.