[Dataloss] CT: Stolen Laptop Includes Health Net Workers' Data

[Michael Hill, CITRMS]

http://www.courant.com/business/hc-laptop0104.artjan04,0,6454765.story


Thousands of Health Net employees in Connecticut and other states have been notified that their names and Social Security numbers were on a laptop computer that was stolen more than a month ago from a company vendor.

There have been no reports of identity theft as a result of the incident, said David Olson, a Health Net spokesman. He wouldn't name the vendor or say where the laptop was stolen, other than it wasn't in the Northeast.

The laptop had information on about 5,000 employees companywide and an undisclosed number of health-care providers outside the Northeast. There was no medical information about them on the computer, Olson said.

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Health Net retained Kroll Inc. to provide free credit monitoring for one year, and help in restoring good credit in case of identity theft, to employees and providers who sign up for it. About a month ago, Health Net started telling employees in a letter that police were investigating the laptop theft and had "not found any evidence that the data has been accessed or misused."

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Michael Hill 
Certified Identity Theft Risk Management Specialist
IDT Consultants
404-216-3751


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