Express Scripts data breach may have hit 700,000 victims
SC Magazine | Chuck Miller | October 1, 2009
Last year’s data breach of St. Louis-based Express Scripts may be more serious than initially believed.
In November 2008, the major pharmacy benefit management firm said it received an anonymous letter that included the names, Social Security numbers, birth dates and, in some cases, prescription information of 75 members. The writer or writers threatened to release millions of more records if the business failed to pay an unspecified sum of money.
In the last two months, based on new information from the extortionists, Express Scripts began notifying more than 700,000 victims of their personal information may have been compromised.
CLOUD Take: It is interesting that a data breach that affected 700,000 people is perceived as a breach of Express Scripts. Although the point of loss may have been systems at Express Scripts, there were 700,000 breaches, not one. Read the rest of this entry »
