A company that makes health insurance enrollee cards has said one of its servers may have been improperly accessed, according to a LifeHealthPro report.
Albany, N.Y.-based Newkirk Products said it found indications of a server breach on July 6 and shut the server down that day. The company plans to start calling agents, brokers and other affected entities in September, according to LifeHealthPro.
Newkirk provides cards to carriers including Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, HealthNow New York and others. The carriers provide or administer health insurance for about 3.3 million people, LifeHealthPro reported.
“The data subject to unauthorized access varies by plan but includes some combination of: the member’s name, mailing address, type of plan, member and group ID number, names of dependents enrolled in the plan, primary care provider, and in some cases, date of birth, premium invoice information and Medicaid ID number,” Newkirk said in a press release. “The server did not contain Social Security numbers, banking or credit card information, medical information or any insurance claims information.”
Newkirk said that no health plans’ systems were accessed or affected. There’s also no evidence the data that may have been accessed has been used inappropriately, LifeHealthPro reported.
