SOUTH CAROLINAAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryError OtherBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedFinancial accountIdentity (basic)Health (basic)LowResolved

BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Feb 12, 2016

To disclose

—

Affected

998

Confidence

50%

Full breach record for BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina →

Due to a computer error, BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina, a business associate of the South Carolina Public Employee Benefit Authority, incorrectly mailed pre-authorization dental letters to 998 members. The misdirected letters contained financial, demographic, and clinical information.

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HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified

⚠ no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.

⚠ No discovery dateThe OCR public portal omits the discovery date, so the 60-day notification clock cannot be evaluated from this source — only that the filing was submitted.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Feb 12, 2016

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed998 affectedView incident

Name: BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina
norm: bluecross blueshield of south carolina
Industry: Insurance — Health

Name: BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina
norm: bluecross blueshield of south carolina
Industry: Insurance — Health
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 998nationwide
Data types: Financial accountIdentity (basic)Health (basic)
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Paper / films
Covered-entity type: Business associate
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: OCR obtained assurances that the BA implemented the corrective actions.

Changes made: Revised procedures for ensuring data integrity and accuracy.
Enhanced procedures to include a quality control validation step.
Trained systems support staff.
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: HHS notified
Discovery-date grounding: no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
HIPAA
Discovered: not extracted
→ Notified: not extracted
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: not extracted → Notified: not extracted	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source URL: https://ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/breach/breach_report.jsf
DisclosureLens renders the full SEC/HHS filing inline below from the originating regulator’s public record (§4.5 fair report privilege).
Filed at: Feb 12, 2016
Raw hash: b045ef5038289b863982311b47f31a53cf28b8bad22c819054f9bcd45d7db65d

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Reporting entityBlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina

Victim entityBlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseRevised procedures for ensuring data integrity and accuracy.

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing