Premera Blue Cross breached, medical information exposed
Source: Reuters
(Reuters) - Health insurer Premera Blue Cross said on Tuesday it was a victim of a cyberattack that may have exposed medical data and financial information of 11 million customers, in the latest serious breach disclosed by a healthcare company.
Premera said the attackers may have gained access to claims data, including clinical information, along with banking account numbers, Social Security numbers, birth dates and other data in an attack that began in May 2014.
It is the largest breach reported to date involving patient medical information, according to Dave Kennedy, an expert in healthcare security who is chief executive of TrustedSEC LLC.
About 6 million of the people whose accounts were accessed are residents of Washington state, where customers include employees of Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O), Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) and Starbucks Corp (SBUX.O), according to Premera. The rest are scattered across every U.S. state.
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BY JIM FINKLE
BOSTON Tue Mar 17, 2015 8:20pm EDT
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Late last month Ohio tax dept. sent me a letter about a questionable refund on my tax return.
The only problem with that is that I haven't filed yet.
It has been straightened out, (I hope), and was told that if they needed any more from me they would contact me.
Haven't noticed anything strange on/in any accounts but changed all passwords anyway.
Have to make sure that SS is okay. They said they would get in touch if they found anything. Giving them until Thursday.
It's the shits that you take care and do things to make info hard to get and it gets out through something like this.
