Health Net loses sensitive data for 2M people

[Newsjock]

Source: Associated Press

A health insurance company that provides coverage to 6 million people nationwide said Monday it is missing data servers containing the health records, financial information and Social Security numbers for nearly 2 million current and past clients.

Health Net Inc. said Monday it cannot account for several hard drives from a data center in the Sacramento suburb of Rancho Cordova.

The Woodland Hills-based managed care company would not disclose how many people could be affected, but the California Department of Managed Health Care placed the number at 1.9 million. In a news release, the department said nine server drives are missing and that it is conducting its own investigation into the company's security practices.

... The 1.9 million people potentially affected include more than 622,000 enrollees in Health Net products regulated by the state Department of Managed Health Care, more than 223,000 enrolled in California Department of Insurance products and an unspecified number enrolled in Medicare.

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[fascisthunter]

1. whooops

assholes

[Hestia]

2. I work for a hospital system and our servers were hacked last week. Hmmm...supposedly

nothing was stolen, but still...