Data breach effects widespread


A Health Net Inc. data breach discovered in January affected more Oregonians than originally thought.

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A Health Net Inc. data breach discovered in January affected more Oregonians than originally thought.

 

The insurer refused to say how many people nationwide it was alerting to the oversight. Health Net originally said the breach affected nearly 2 million nationwide, including 124,000 in Oregon. 

But in an e-mail last month to the Oregon Insurance Division, Health Net Oregon president Chris Ellertson said 40,000 of 124,000 Oregonians were being sent corrected notices. Health Net had also identified an additional 6,300 Oregonians whose personal information — including names, addresses, Social Security numbers and health and financial information — was on the computer drives discovered missing from a data center in January. 

That brought the total affected current and former members and employees in Oregon to 130,000. The company had 105,000 current members in 2009.

Read more at OregonLive.com.

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