Ken Selzer, the Kansas Insurance Commissioner warned that members of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City need to safeguard their financial and health information following a data breach that accessed information on their medical ID cards.
Insurance officials stressed that BCBS of KC is separate from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas and did not involve Social Security numbers, dates of birth, banking, credit card information, claims information or health information, they did urge members to be on the look-out for any suspicious activity regarding medical ID card use.
There were over 240,000 records that were affected yet 790,000 members were notified.
No word yet on who the attackers are.
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