Disk With Personal Data on 2.9M Georgians Lost
An AP newswire article, via PhysOrg.com, reports that:
A disk containing the names, birth dates and Social Security numbers of 2.9 million Medicaid and children's health care recipients is missing, Georgia health officials said Tuesday.More here.
The state said the security breach was reported by Affiliated Computer Services, a private vendor. ACS did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment.
The Georgia Department of Community Health said it was requiring the Dallas-based company to notify everyone affected and to offer free credit reports. The children's health care program involved in the data loss is called PeachCare.
This is, by far, not the first time ACS has been involved in a data breach or unauthorized disclosure case. You can check out the entire sordid history here.
posted by Fergie @ 4/10/2007 09:35:00 AM
1 Comments:
With all due respect to the nice job the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse does with their chronology, their chronology does not actually name Affiliated Computer Systems in one of the breach entries (Motorola, May 2005), even though the theft was from ACS.
I have more details on ACS's history of reported breaches in my own blog, too.
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