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Some people erroneously believe that this site can offer them personalized help responding to a data breach. It can’t. This site is a news and issues site. DON’T  post your personal info or contact information in a comment on this site. You are just inviting scammers to contact you, and giving them details they can use to…

A template of Anthem’s letter to affected members has been submitted to, and uploaded by, the California Attorney General’s Office. You can read it here (pdf).

Chelsea Jensen reports: Thousands of patients who filled prescriptions at Kaiser Permanente’s Kona pharmacy may have had some of their personal information compromised earlier this year. Kaiser Permanente Hawaii is notifying a total of 6,600 patients who filled prescriptions at the Kailua-Kona pharmacy on Hualalai Road between Dec. 31, 2012, and Aug. 31, 2013, of…

Aarti Shahani  sat down with Greg Virgin, CEO of the security firm RedJack, to discuss the black market for stolen health care data: After poking around for about an hour, we come across an advertisement by someone selling Medicare IDs. We’re not revealing the site address or name because we don’t want the dealer to know we’re…

Anthem has now posted information on how to enroll for the free services it is providing to those affected by its recently disclosed breach: Anthem is working with AllClear ID, a leading and trusted identity protection provider, to offer 24 months of identity theft repair and credit monitoring services to current or former members of…

Ouch. The Boston Baskin Cancer Foundation breach, reported here, affected 56,694 patients and employees, according to the entity’s report to HHS. The breach affected patients who were seen at each of Boston Baskin’s office locations between 2008 and July 2014, as well as current and former employees. I wonder how many of those 56,694 patients and employees…