Health Net who provides health insurance to 6 million people nationwide, has suffered a large data breach affecting around 2 million people.
The California based company lost data servers containing health and financial records for 1.9 million customers. The personal data also included Social Security numbers.
“While the [internal] investigation continues, Health Net has made the decision out of an abundance of caution to notify the individuals whose information is on the drives,” the company said in a statement.
“Health Net has agreed to provide two years of free credit monitoring services to its California enrollees, in addition to identity theft insurance, fraud resolution and restoration of credit files, if needed,” department spokeswoman Lynne Randolph said in a statement.
In January, Health Net learned it was missing some computer server drives, when its information-technology vendor couldn’t find them, the state Attorney General’s Office said Monday. The drivers were being decommissioned while Health Net was moving its data center from California to Colorado.
The San Diego Union-Tribune reported that the failure was the company’s second security breach in less than two years.
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