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NM: Stolen laptop puts thousands of New Mexicans at risk for ID theft
From: kirniki <kirniki () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 14:54:12 -0400
http://newmexicoindependent.com/53957/stolen-laptop-puts-thousands-of-new-mexicans-at-risk-for-id-theft In late March, an employee of a subcontractor for the company that processes claims and provides dental benefits for the State’s Medicaid program, filed a stolen car report for a vehicle whose trunk contained an ”unencrypted” laptop loaded with patient information. That stolen car has prompted the New Mexico Human Services Department start notifying nearly 10,000 users of the government’s low-income health insurance program of a potential for ID theft. The patient information in the laptop included name, health plan identification number, which in some cases is the individual’s social security number, and a provider identification number but not the name of the provider, the agency said. The agency sent out a message today saying that it was in the process of notifying 9,500 New Mexicans who use its Medicaid Salud plan of a possible security breach. [..] _______________________________________________ Dataloss-discuss Mailing List (dataloss-discuss () datalossdb org) Archived at http://seclists.org/dataloss/ Get business, compliance, IT and security staff on the same page with CREDANT Technologies: The Shortcut Guide to Understanding Data Protection from Four Critical Perspectives. The eBook begins with considerations important to executives and business leaders. http://www.credant.com/campaigns/ebook-chpt-one-web.php
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