CalOptima says data on 68,000 members may be compromised
Personally identifiable information on about 68,000 members of CalOptima, a Medicaid managed care plan serving Orange County, Calif., may have been compromised after several CDs containing the information went missing earlier this month.
The unencrypted data on the CDs includes member names, home addresses, dates of birth, medical procedure codes, diagnosis codes and member ID numbers, and an unspecified number of Social Security numbers.
The discs had been put in a box and sent via certified mail to CalOptima by one of its claims scanning vendors, according to a statement by the health plan. But CalOptima received just the external packaging material, minus the box of discs, the statement said.
