WellPoint Finds Missing CD With Data On 75,000 People
After the country's largest managed care firm began informing customers that an unencrypted disc with the personal and health information of about 75,000 people had been lost, the company found it Wednesday afternoon.
WellPoint did not release any information on where the disc was found. A press advisory said that Health Data Management Solutions, a third-party vendor, had shipped the CD via UPS to Magellan Behavioral Health Services, and it had been lost in transit. Magellan monitors and coordinates substance abuse and mental health treatments for insurance companies.
The disc contained personal information on 75,000 members of WellPoint's Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield unit in New York.
