The Dental Network breaches 75,000

Who Breached: The Dental Network
Number Affected: 75,000
Information breached: Social Security Numbers
How: posted online

The Dental Network, owned by CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, has notified 75,000 members that their information was accidentally posted online.

The personal information, including Social Security Numbers, were posted to a public website last month for a period of two weeks. The breach was discovered on February 20th and members were notified on March 10th.

Michael Sullivan, spokesman for CareFirst, was quoted as saying that the company “moved in a timely fashion to secure the data and notify the members.” This leads me to ask, what is a “timely fashion”? How long is too long?

Other data breaches from the past week:

• Advance Auto Parts – 56,000
• Antioch University – 70,000
• BNY Mellon Shareowner Services – 3,500

Via attrition.org, The Baltimore Sun Tags: data breach, breach, breach notification, dental network, bluecross, blueshield, security breach