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Here are some breach reports you won’t see on HHS’s breach tool because they involve only a few patients, but they all involve human error by CareFirst employees who were mailing out information or claims: One insured’s payment receipt with Social Security number was mailed to another individual; One person’s claims information, including medical details was…

On June 10, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield notified the Maryland Attorney General’s Office of a breach involving member information. According to their letter,  a CareFirst associate leaving the Canton office did not transport member information securely.  As a result,  part of a member’s file fell out of the associate’s bag, where it was discovered by someone…

Maryland has updated its web site to provide breach notifications that it has received since its last update.  The newly posted notifications are for the period ending December 31, 2009. Some of the breaches described in the notifications were reported in the media at the time,  but I spotted a number of previously unknown breaches …

In a follow-up t0 a story first reported here, Liz F. Kay of the Baltimore Sun reports: A CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield dental HMO accidentally exposed personal information, including Social Security numbers, of about 75,000 members on a public Web site last month and didn’t notify them until about three weeks later. The Dental Network, which…