1.5 Million Medical Files At Risk In Health Net Data Breach
A hard drive with seven years of personal and medical information on about 1.5 million Health Net customers, including 446,000 in Connecticut, was lost six months ago and was first reported Wednesday, state and company officials said.
The insurance company informed the state attorney general's office and the Department of Insurance Wednesday of the security breach that puts personal medical records at risk in a historic lapse, the first of its kind to be publicly reported.
A portable, external hard drive with Social Security numbers and medical records "disappeared" and is still missing from the insurer's Northeast headquarters in Shelton, a Health Net spokeswoman said Wednesday
Friday, March 18, 2011
1.5 Million Medical Files At Risk In Health Net Data Breach - Hartford Courant
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