American insurer Blue Cross has suffered from outflow of secret data
Largest American medical insurance provider in state of Georgia – Blue Cross – has suffered from serious information leakage.
having studied the information about computer state experts of the analytical center of company Perimetrix have come to conclusion, that the firm is not able to arrange post dispatches and competently to test the software.
Blue Cross’s employees tried to send about 200 thousand letters to own clients; however, they have by mistake specified incorrect addresses on envelopes. According to Blue Cross representatives, the reason of a mistake relies in replacement certain «computer system», which new version has been tested not up to the end. In result of this mistake, addressees of letters have appeared under threat of theft of the person – in each envelope the weight of private data, including numbers of social insurance contained.
Except for outflow of financial data, now it is meaningful to speak about medical information outflow. In spite of the fact that these data have not been specified in letters directly, experts will manage to understand, what disease the present addressee of the letter suffered. Thus, Blue Cross has broken law requirements, demanding to protect the data making medical secret.