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BlueCross BlueShield data breach affects 850,000 doctors

As many as 850,000 physicians may be affected by theft of a BlueCross BlueShield employee’s laptop. Physicians’ names addresses, federal tax ID numbers and national provider numbers were contained in an unencrypted file on the laptop.
The data breach presents the possibility of massive medical insurance fraud, but the 187,000 doctors who used their Social Security [...]

LifeLock review: Managers turn off laptop encryption, lose laptops–DOH!

In the old westerns it was easy to tell the good guys from the bad; the good guys wore white hats and the bad guys wore black. But, when it comes to identity theft and hackers, the bad guys are invisible, and the people we thought were the good guys either refuse to wear their [...]