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Tricare data breach affects 4,700 families
From: Henry Brown <hbrown () knology net>
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 06:50:29 -0600
http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2007/12/military_tricarebreach_071207w/ Tricare data breach affects 4,700 families By Karen Jowers - Staff writer Posted : Friday Dec 7, 2007 16:19:05 EST Letters are in the mail to about 4,700 households who submitted claims through the Tricare Europe office since 2004 about a data breach involving their personal information — a month after the breach was reported. Most of those affected have since moved from Europe. Electronic Data Systems notified Tricare on Nov. 7 that they had not properly secured a part of the system it maintains for Tricare, and “certain external entities” had been allowed access to a file with personal information. That file contained full or partial Social Security numbers. For one or more members of each household, it included their name, date of birth, and a medical diagnosis code associated with a health benefits claim submitted to Tricare Management Activity. “We don’t think this is a malicious intrusion,” said Julie Basa, a spokeswoman for EDS, an information technology company that supports a health benefits system for the Defense Department’s Tricare Management Activity. There has been no indication that any data has been misused, she said. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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