Insurer Reports Personal Information Stolen
Via The (Louisville, Kentucky) Courier-Journal.
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.More here.
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.
(Props, Pogo Was Right.)
posted by Fergie @ 2/14/2007 10:51:00 AM
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