Richard Craver reports on what I would consider a minor breach:
A communication error by a Blue Cross Blue Cross of N.C. employee Wednesday exposed the email addresses of about 1,000 customers to everyone who received the email.
The email was sent to inform the customers of changes in their billing cycle. Customers were required to provide a password to access the content of the email.
The email did not include any protected personal or health information, Lew Borman, a spokesman for the insurer, said Thursday. He said the customers were “a limited group of individual policyholders under 65.”
Read more on Winston-Salem Journal.