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Breach notice filed by SCAN Health Plan (August 2016)

Organization named: SCAN Health Plan Provisional: identity as filed, not yet matched to the directory
Type as the source lists it: Unauthorized Access/Disclosure

What the sources say

HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) Primary notice

Posted on the HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) with a submission date of Aug. 22, 2016.

Organization as reported
SCAN Health Plan, CA
Entity type as reported
Health Plan
Category as reported
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
Location of information as reported
Other
Submission date
Aug. 22, 2016
Observed by BreachRecords
2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 14446, row:5585)
Archived copy
Held in the private archive (provenance)

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.

The source's own words, from the revision above.

Figures, per source

  • 87,069 individuals affected (total reported), as reported by the HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals), source date Aug. 22, 2016, revision observed 2026-10-18.

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Timeline

Source dates are the dates the sources give. Observation dates are when BreachRecords recorded each revision.

  • Submission date at the HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals)
  • Observed by BreachRecords (revision 14446)
  • Approved by a reviewer

Organizations linked by a reviewer

  • SCAN Health Plan Named as the covered entity Provisional: identity as filed, not yet matched to the directory Linked 2026-10-19, method provisional.

Archived evidence

  • 3dbc27dd5742e041cc1e7fe18cc669e2901fbd3b86b7007ed27948ff4d406e1f
    text/csv, 5,530,996 bytes, from the HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals), retrieved 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC. Archived privately · Provenance · Source page

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