Wednesday, February 14, 2007

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.

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.

More here.

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