The N&O reports that a NC Blue Cross Blue Shield employee transferred data . . . including the Social Security numbers of just about every doctor in the state (and 850,000 doctors nationwide) . . . from company computers to a personal laptop which was stolen from a car this past August in Chicago.
The employee transferred the information to the laptop without encrypting the data.
IDIOT! MORON!
Whatcha wanna bet this nimrod still has a job?
As a doctor that "does business" with NCBCBS (as an Independent Contractor, my SS# is not my tax-ID number . . . but it's still my *&^?%$#@! SS#!), I'm just now reading about this in the newspaper today . . . at the end of October.
I've not gotten ANY letters from the company . . . or heard word one about the "free credit monitoring" BCBS is supposedly providing.
I loved this:
When he heard about the stolen data, the president of the Massachusetts Medical Society, Dr. Mario Motta, suggested doctors who use their Social Security numbers for tax identification change their tax IDs.
It's easy to change the number, Motta said. The problem is that once a doctor switches, it takes more time for insurers to pay claims, he said.
Yeah, it's easy to change the number. Just don't count on, in these hard economic times, getting paid.
And never mind that you have to look over your personal financial shoulder from now on.
No biggie.
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