1/28/2010
Here's an interesting story. BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee seems to have suffered a data breach last year when someone broke into offices that BlueCross had abandoned and stole 57 computer hard drives containing medical information on up to 500,000 people. So far, BlueCross of Tennessee has spent more than $7 million responding—a great deal of it probably on 700 people who are trying to figure out what was stored on those hard drives. According to this BlueCross information sheet, the information on these computers included names, insurance numbers, and for some individuals diagnostic information, date of birth and social security numbers.
Read more of this entry on Norbert's blog: http://privacy.wnj.com.