doctors-identification-stolen — chicagotribune.com
About 800,000 doctors — nearly every practicing physician in the country — are being warned that business and personal information such as Social Security numbers, addresses and certain identification numbers may be open for a possible breach after an insurance trade group employee’s laptop was stolen from a car in Chicago.
The Chicago-based Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, a trade group for the nation’s Blue Cross health insurance plans, confirmed an employee “broke protocol and transferred to a personal laptop” information that was later stolen in late August.