[ISN] Health Net discloses loss of data to 1.9 million customers

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:05:06 -0600 (CST)
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9214600/Health_Net_discloses_loss_of_data_to_1.9_million_customers

By Jaikumar Vijayan
Computerworld
March 15, 2011

Health Net, a provider of managed health care services, yesterday said 
that it's alerting some 1.9 million customers that nine server drives 
containing personal and health data were recently discovered to be 
missing from a data center in Rancho Cordova, Calif.

The data center is managed for Health Net by IBM, which notified the 
insurer about the missing drives, Health Net said in a statement.

An initial probe has found that the missing drives contained names, 
addresses, Social Security numbers, financial information and health 
data of current and former Health Net members, employees and health care 
providers, the statement said.

Health Net said it will offer two years of free credit monitoring 
services to the affected individuals.

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