WellPoint Security Breach Exposes 470,000 Credit Card Numbers & Medical Records
Posted by Kuka under Health&Fitness on 30 六月, 2010Health insurance giant WellPoint is trying to catch his clients and their drop rate upset coverage for breast cancer patients after they are diagnosed with the disease have been. But now, they really explain a lot after a security breach exposed to do medical records, the number of credit card and other information of 470,000 clients.WellPoint said the fault dear reader, lies not in their hands but in the hands of a external provider hired last October to update an application on the website of the company. The seller had supposedly promised WellPoint that all safety precautions are taken after the upgrade of effectuée.Sauf pas.Peu have been after the upgrade of a woman in California found that playing with the URL, it may be termed the confidential information of other customers. WellPoint that they are subject to the leak within 12 hours of training on firm and, subsequently brought against the seller, without a name on the outside. However, this does not delete that customer accounts between October 2009 and March were 2010.La insurance, provider of the Nation’s largest health care incurred by the insured is notifications to customers who sent their accounts were suspended. It offers a year of free credit monitoring is not clients.Ce exposed to the people for the first time WellPoint had to issue an “our bad” after a security breach. In 2008, about 128,000 customers were exposed to information. To atone for the company also offered free credit monitoring of customers touchés.Et way back in 2006, backup computer tapes containing personal information of 200,000 stolen from their members from the office of a vendor Massachusetts.Glitch security makes customers WellPoint financial, medical data [USA Today]
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