Posted on 04/14/2010 7:04:56 AM PDT by GailA
As of April 2, BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee (BCBST) had identified 998,422 current and former members whose personal information was included in the theft of 57 hard drives in October 2009 at the payor’s Eastgate location.
As of the last update in January, BCBST estimated 500,000 patients' data had been breached.
According to an update from BCBST, 550,873 notifications have been sent to members indicating that their personal information was included on the stolen hard drives. The total number of members includes an additional 447,549 current and former members recently identified in the Tier 1 category, meaning members’ names, addresses, BlueCross member ID numbers and/or dates of birth were included in the stolen content.
Those 447,549 Tier 1 members began to receive their notification letters beginning last week. “As of April 2, there has been no documented incident of identity theft or credit fraud of BlueCross members as a result of this incident,” BCBST stated.
The 238,589 members in the Tier 3 category – confirmed as having their name, address, BlueCross member ID number, diagnosis, social security number and/or date of birth included in the stolen hard drives – have been sent a notification, according to BCBST.
Of the 312,284 current and former members identified in the Tier 2 category (name, address, BlueCross member ID number, date of birth and/or diagnosis), 146,612 subscribers have been identified as requiring a notification letter be sent with details of the hard drive theft and remediation services offered to them and their family members through BlueCross.
Members who have questions or want more information are advised to call the BlueCross Eastgate Response Customer Call Center at 1-888-422-2786.
There is “nothing” to worry about with a national medical database like the Democrats want. Nope. Nothing at all...
Ohio agencies split $28.5 million to help doctors switch from paper to electronic files
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2492729/posts
This happens all the time.
so someone stole 57 hard drives, but left the rest of the computers?
what am I not getting here?
The problem is that the “right” people aren’t in charge. Since this is Tennessee, who didn’t vote for the one, then it is obviously a Republican problem. < / sarcasm >
Probably backup drives. They sit on the desk plugged in via USB.
Probably USB drives which you can hook up to any computer
unsecured backup drives, you mean;-). so the perp must have wanted the information.
“what am I not getting here?”
It’s BCBS... They probably mean “Hardrive” = “Personal Computer” sans monitor, keyboard, mouse...
I remember a few years ago where the IRS sold some used hardware for salvage and never removed taxpayer records.
Good thing the rules on identity theft were not in place then! Oh, they probably are exempt anyway!
The advent of the PC and the internet has permanently destroyed privacy. There is nothing in our lives anymore that remains private because of computerized records, their easy mass theft, and government intrusion. As much as I use my PC, even now, I detest the advent of these accursed things.
That's one for each state in the Union according to Obama.
Meanwhile Big Brother gets us to sign their ridiculous HIPPA crapola. What a friggin joke. Medical privacy is a big government lie!
My first thought when I saw ‘57’.
This is another reason so many Americans are skeptical of the health care system and the Democrats’ new law:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89ZUZT4YrHI
How much do ya wanna bet social security numbers are in there too ??? Or the ‘blue cross member number” is THE SAME as the SSN ?
One hard drive for each state in Obama’s kingdom.
Yes, for all of the “paper shredding” that the public engages in, it only takes one corrupt figure in a company to steal the banking/credit card records on millions of customers as has repeatedly happened.
The culture of corruption on the inside isn’t being adequately addressed.
Glad it was only Tenn and that the pols aren’t trying to implement this on the rest of the US.... oh wait. Well, in the fed’s defense at least this never happened to any program they’ve run like the VA.... no, that doesn’t work either.
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