An ongoing investigation shows that computer hard drives stolen from BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee in Chattanooga contain personal information on 220,000 members, and that count could more than double.
An e-mail statement Wednesday from the state's largest health insurer shows that as many as 500,000 members, including some in other states, could eventually be identified as facing a risk of identity theft. So far there is no evidence that any stolen customer data has been used.
Blue Cross and law enforcement agencies are investigating an October theft of 57 computer hard drives. Some of them contain Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and medical information.
BlueCross is offering a year of free ID protection monitoring to those affected among its 3.1 million customers.
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Stolen Tenn. BlueCross hard drives affect 220,000
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Published: January 14, 2010
Published: January 14, 2010
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