Insurer reports personal information stolen

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070214/NEWS01/70214030

Computer tapes containing personal information on about 196,000 members of 
health insurer WellPoint - including many Anthem Blue Cross and Blue 
Shield customers in Kentucky and Indiana - have been stolen from the 
office of a WellPoint vendor.

Social Security numbers, often the key to committing identity theft, were 
among the information on the tapes.

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