SCAN

SCAN

SCAN Health Plan, suffered from a data breach incident after an unauthorized person got access to 87,000 individuals person information.

The exposed information included name, address, phone number date of birth, limited health notes, such as a doctor name, health condition, or medication name, and Social Security number.

They immediately began an investigation and brought in outside experts and took prevantive stpes.

Source: https://www.databreaches.net/scan-health-plan-notifying-members-of-unauthorized-access-to-their-information/

TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/thescangroup

"id": "sca11631522",
"linkid": "thescangroup",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "08/2016",
"severity": "100",
"impact": "4",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with customers data leaks"
{'affected_entities': [{'customers_affected': 87000,
                        'industry': 'Healthcare',
                        'name': 'SCAN Health Plan',
                        'type': 'Health Insurance Provider'}],
 'data_breach': {'number_of_records_exposed': 87000,
                 'personally_identifiable_information': ['name',
                                                         'address',
                                                         'phone number',
                                                         'date of birth',
                                                         'Social Security '
                                                         'number'],
                 'sensitivity_of_data': 'high',
                 'type_of_data_compromised': ['name',
                                              'address',
                                              'phone number',
                                              'date of birth',
                                              'limited health notes',
                                              'Social Security number']},
 'description': 'SCAN Health Plan suffered from a data breach incident after '
                "an unauthorized person got access to 87,000 individuals' "
                'personal information. The exposed information included name, '
                'address, phone number, date of birth, limited health notes, '
                'such as a doctor name, health condition, or medication name, '
                'and Social Security number. They immediately began an '
                'investigation and brought in outside experts and took '
                'preventive steps.',
 'impact': {'data_compromised': ['name',
                                 'address',
                                 'phone number',
                                 'date of birth',
                                 'limited health notes',
                                 'Social Security number']},
 'response': {'remediation_measures': 'preventive steps',
              'third_party_assistance': 'outside experts'},
 'threat_actor': 'Unauthorized person',
 'title': 'SCAN Health Plan Data Breach',
 'type': 'Data Breach'}
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