US Blue Shield of California 2014 Technical Error (Q16202)
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A data breach risk event
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | US Blue Shield of California 2014 Technical Error |
A data breach risk event |
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14A68CE2-AE69-455C-8146-70B108EA4098
January 2014
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A California health department apologized Monday for releasing the Social Security numbers of around 18,000 doctors. The mix-up started when the insurance company Blue Shield of California gave a list of health-care providers to the state agency but forgot to take out their private information. The Department of Managed Health Care, which regulates the states health maintenance organizations, then distributed those lists in response to 10 public records requests also without redacting the Social Security numbers. We sincerely apologize and regret any inconvenience this incident has caused you, Sarah Ream, of the Department of Managed Health Care, wrote to the doctors. She said they werent aware of any cases of identity theft but offered them all free subscriptions to a fraud-alert service (English)
