Health Insurance

Health Insurance Provider Blue Shield of California Discloses Accidental Sharing of Customer Health Data Via Google Analytics

April 29, 2025

A major data breach at health insurance giant Blue Shield of California appears to be a case of misconfiguring advertising analytics tools. Between April 2021 and January 2024, Google Analytics was misconfigured causing some personal information and potentially sensitive health data related to claims and searches to be available to Google’s ad network.

Mobile phone showing Telegram chatbots used in health insurance data leak

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India’s Star Health Insurance Data Leaks via Telegram Chatbots

September 26, 2024

Hackers are leaking sensitive personal - (PII) and protected health information (PHI) from India’s top health insurance company, Star Health and Allied Insurance, via Telegram chatbots.

Stethoscope on table showing health insurance data breach

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WebTPA Health Insurance Data Breach Leaks 2.4 Million Members’ Sensitive Information

May 28, 2024

WebTPA Employer Services has notified the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) of a massive data breach that leaked the personal information of over 2.4 million health insurance plan members.

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Australia’s Medibank Health Insurance Data Held for Ransom, 200 GB of Medical Records Stolen

October 24, 2022

Medibank is Australia’s largest health insurance provider with some 3.7 million customers. In some cases, medical records are among the health insurance policies and the thief had named about 1,000 high-profile or at-risk people.

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