Insurer’s customer data was swiped

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http://www.columbusdispatch.com/business/business.php?story=241942

The personal information of tens of thousands of Nationwide
customers has been stolen.

The company said yesterday that a lockbox of backup tapes containing
the personal data of 28,279 Nationwide Health Plans customers, most
in central Ohio, was stolen from the Waymouth, Mass., office of
Concentra Preferred Systems.

They are among the data records of more than 100 million U.S.
citizens that have been compromised by security breaches since
February 2005, according to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse.

In the Nationwide case, the tapes contained medical claim
information, health data and Social Security numbers.

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