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 Dec. 16, 2016.
- Organization as reported
- Southcentral Foundation, AK
- Entity type as reported
- Healthcare Provider
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- Dec. 16, 2016
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 14328, row:5467)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
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.