The health insurance underwriter CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield has announce that a cyber flack has stolen 1.1 million records of both current and former member .
The insurance firm , which operates in Maryland , Virginia and the District of Columbia , has a total of 3.4 million users . In a instruction made yesterday , it admitted that 1.1 million of those records had been hacked in June 2014 . CareFirst only noticed that the record had been compromise as part of a protection refresh , undertaken because of thespate of late healthcare hacks .
CareFirst claims that hackers only accessed one database , but that they could have made away with name calling , parentage dates , e-mail reference and phallus identification numbers . Mercifully , there were no Social Security or credit card details in the database . The company ’s now blocked these user accounting and ask members to create new ones .
This is n’t the first health care indemnity hacker of recent time . Most notably , Anthem was hacked earlier this year , with up to98.6 million drug user records being compromised . By compare , this CareFirst drudge is small beer — but it does reinforce theworrying course of healthcare industry hacks . [ Reuters on Re / codification ]
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