[Dataloss] North Dakota Humana information theft case settled

lyger lyger at attrition.org
Tue Oct 31 21:06:22 EST 2006


http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/business/15895937.htm

Humana Inc. has agreed to pay for up to two years of credit report 
monitoring for North Dakota customers who may have had their private 
financial information stolen, Insurance Commissioner Jim Poolman said.

...

The settlement was in response to two unrelated incidents in which 
personal information about Humana customers, including Social Security 
numbers and birth dates, were taken.

In one incident, Medicare drug benefit applications were stolen last May 
from an insurance agent's unlocked car in Brooklyn Park, Minn., a suburb 
of Minneapolis.

In June, an employee of the federal Department of Health and Human 
Services discovered a spreadsheet on a Baltimore hotel computer that 
included the names of about 17,000 Humana customers. A Humana employee had 
called up the information and then failed to delete it.

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