Health Insurer Loses 1.5 Million Patient Records
Stored on an unencrypted HDD
By Jean Jacques Maleval | November 24, 2009 at 3:17 pm
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Health Insurer Loses 1.5 Million Patient Records
The data, which was stored on a portable disk drive that disappeared from the insurer’s office, was unencrypted and included patient Social Security numbers, bank account numbers and health data, according to the Hartford Courant. The disk also contained personal information on at least 5,000 physicians.
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