Employee error exposed data of 16,000 Blue Cross patients online for 3 months
Healthcare IT News | September 21, 2018
Philadelphia-based Independence Blue Cross is notifying 16,762 patients -- about 1 percent of its members -- that their data was exposed online for a number of months, due to an employee uploading a member file online. Independence Blue Cross Privacy Office was notified on July 19 that member information was accessible online to the public. After an investigation alongside a forensics firm, officials determined an employee uploaded a file to a public-facing website.