A Blue Shield of California broker, Team Alvarez Insurance Services, suffered from a data security breach that exposed 2,858 Blue Shield members' data.
The compromised information includes names and health insurance information, health plan member ID number, date of birth, email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses.
No Blue Shield member's social security numbers or credit card information was affected.
Blue Shield systems and emails were never affected or vulnerable to this attack.
Blue Shield offered a free year of Experian credit monitoring and identity theft protection in letters to members who the incident might have impacted.
Source: https://www.databreaches.net/blue-shield-of-california-insurance-broker-victim-of-ransomware-attack/
TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/blue-shield-of-california
"id": "blu735271222",
"linkid": "blue-shield-of-california",
"type": "Data Leak",
"date": "10/2021",
"severity": "60",
"impact": "4",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with customers data leaks"{'affected_entities': [{'customers_affected': 2858,
'industry': 'Insurance',
'name': 'Team Alvarez Insurance Services',
'type': 'Insurance Broker'}],
'customer_advisories': 'Offered a free year of Experian credit monitoring and '
'identity theft protection',
'data_breach': {'number_of_records_exposed': 2858,
'personally_identifiable_information': ['names',
'date of birth',
'email addresses',
'phone numbers',
'physical addresses'],
'sensitivity_of_data': 'Medium',
'type_of_data_compromised': ['names',
'health insurance information',
'health plan member ID number',
'date of birth',
'email addresses',
'phone numbers',
'physical addresses']},
'description': 'A Blue Shield of California broker, Team Alvarez Insurance '
'Services, suffered from a data security breach that exposed '
"2,858 Blue Shield members' data. The compromised information "
'includes names, health insurance information, health plan '
'member ID number, date of birth, email addresses, phone '
"numbers, and physical addresses. No Blue Shield member's "
'social security numbers or credit card information was '
'affected. Blue Shield systems and emails were never affected '
'or vulnerable to this attack. Blue Shield offered a free year '
'of Experian credit monitoring and identity theft protection '
'in letters to members who the incident might have impacted.',
'impact': {'data_compromised': ['names',
'health insurance information',
'health plan member ID number',
'date of birth',
'email addresses',
'phone numbers',
'physical addresses']},
'response': {'communication_strategy': 'Offered a free year of Experian '
'credit monitoring and identity theft '
'protection'},
'title': 'Data Security Breach at Team Alvarez Insurance Services',
'type': 'Data Breach'}