[privacy] Insurer Reports Personal Information Stolen

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via The (Louisville, Kentucky) Courier-Journal (props, Pogo Was
Right).

[snip]

Computer tapes containing personal information on about 196,000 members of
health insurer WellPoint — including many Anthem Blue Cross and Blue
Shield customers in Kentucky and Indiana — have been stolen from the
office of a WellPoint vendor.

Social Security numbers, often the key to committing identity theft, were
among the information on the tapes.

Indianapolis-based WellPoint — the parent company of Anthem Blue Cross
and Blue Shield, Kentucky’s largest health insurer — has received no
reports of the information being misused, spokesman Jim Kappel said.

People whose information was stolen were notified in a recent letter from
the company. The theft occurred in early November, but it took a long time
to determine which members’ data was on the tapes, Kappel said.

[snip]

More:
http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070214/NEWS01/7
0214030

- - ferg

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