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SUMMARY

Stolen laptop contains Social Security numbers of hundreds of thousands of physicians
Records	850,000
Record Types	SSN
Breach Type	Stolen Laptop
Data Family	Electronic
Source	Outside
Organization	Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
Other Organizations	WellPoint
Lawsuit?	NO/UNKNOWN
Data Recovered?	NO/UNKNOWN
Arrest?	NO/UNKNOWN
Submitted By:	Lyger

Date	Event
2009-08-25	Incident Occurred
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2009-10-03	Organization Reports Incident
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Address: Chicago, IL, USA
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Ponemon Institute Direct Costs Estimate ¹

$51,000,000.00

Note that these estimates are based on the Ponemon Institute's 2009 direct costs figures from their 2009 Annual Study: Cost of a Data Breach. We multiply $60.00 by the number of records to obtain this figure. Keep in mind that depending on the breach, the direct costs are not always suffered by the breached organizations. In the case of credit card number breaches, the direct costs can often be suffered by banks and card issuers. Also note that this is only an estimate.

by Anonymous on 2009-10-14 (5 months ago)

This actually happened on August 25, 2009.

by Anonymous on 2009-11-21 (3 months ago)

I'm a psychologist contracted with BCBS in Minnesota - I received notification on 10/23/09, although the notification letter itself was undated.