FEDERALAccidentalHealthcareHealthcareMisdeliveryError OtherBusiness Associate (HIPAA)Customer Data InvolvedFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTIDENTITY_BASICHEALTH_BASICLowResolved
BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina
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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.
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.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed998 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- 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
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolinanorm: bluecross blueshield of south carolina
- Industry
- Insurance — Health
Victim entity
- Name
- BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolinanorm: bluecross blueshield of south carolina
- Industry
- Insurance — Health
- Industry
- Healthcaresource default
Incident
- Discovered
- Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- 998
- Data types
- FINANCIAL_ACCOUNTIDENTITY_BASICHEALTH_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- Internal
- Regulator citations
- OCR obtained assurances that the BA implemented the corrective actions.
Compliance
- 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
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.