4,700 households notified of Tri-care data theft a month after the fact?

Tricare data breach affects 4,700 families

By Karen Jowers - Staff writer
Posted : Friday Dec 7, 2007 16:19:05 EST

Letters are in the mail to about 4,700 households who submitted claims through the Tricare Europe office since 2004 about a data breach involving their personal information — a month after the breach was reported.
Most of those affected have since moved from Europe.

Electronic Data Systems notified Tricare on Nov. 7 that they had not properly secured a part of the system it maintains for Tricare, and “certain external entities” had been allowed access to a file with personal information.

That file contained full or partial Social Security numbers. For one or more members of each household, it included their name, date of birth, and a medical diagnosis code associated with a health benefits claim submitted to Tricare Management Activity.

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