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PA: Old fashioned data breach: Independence Blue Cross paper records tossed in trash

Posted on December 26, 2014 by Dissent

Harold Brubaker reports:

Independence Blue Cross on Friday disclosed a data breach affecting 12,500 of its more than 2.5 million members.

Unlike most high-profile cases of personal data loss, such as the one at Target stores last year affecting 70 million people, the IBC case did not involve computers.

The incident happened in October, when maintenance workers threw out four boxes of member records that were supposed to be moved from one floor to another at IBC’s offices, the company said Friday in a legal notice.

The improperly discarded reports contained the names, addresses, member identification numbers, health care plans, and group numbers for members in Southeastern Pennsylvania and in New Jersey, where IBC operates AmeriHealth New Jersey.

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