South Country Health Alliance Notifies Consumers of Data Security Incident News provided by Share this article Share this article OWATONNA, Minn., Dec. 30, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- South Country Health Alliance ("SCHA") has become aware of a data security incident that may have involved the personal information of some SCHA community members. SCHA has sent notification about this incident to potentially impacted individuals and has provided resources to assist them. On September 14, 2020, SCHA discovered that unauthorized access to an employee email account had occurred on June 25, 2020. SCHA immediately secured the account, began an investigation, and engaged cybersecurity experts to assist with the investigation. On November 5, 2020, following a review of the contents of the email account, SCHA determined that personal information belonging to some SCHA community members may have been in the account. In response to learning this, SCHA took steps to identify current mailing addresses for the potentially impacted individuals so that SCHA could notify them and offer them complimentary credit monitoring and identity protection services.