2009 — Blue Cross Blue Shield: US health insurance organization, 1.0M records
Technical writeup
US health insurance organization. A thief stole 57 hard drives from the closet of a BlueCross call center in Chattanooga, Tenn. Data on the stolen hard drives was encoded but not encrypted. Bluecross stated there was no evidence the information was accessed due to the specialized nature of the hardware US health insurance organizationstolen.
Root cause
Lost / stolen device