Tag Archives: Blue Cross Blue Shield

Health insurance company breach may affect 70,000 Georgians

Georgia’s largest health insurer has reported a Web site security breach that could affect 70,000 residents whose medical information, Social Security numbers and credit card data may have been accessed.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia’s breach is part of the larger breach of the insurer’s parent company, WellPoint, which has sent warning letters to 470,000 [...]

Data breach

Data breach at AvMed makes three health insurer data breaches in three months
If the question is when will health care insurers begin protecting their customers’ identities, health information and financial information, in light of the most recent insurer data breach, the answer has to be “when pigs fly.”
AvMed began sending out notifications this week of [...]