Horizon Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Jersey is alerting members whose personal information was stored on two password-protected but unencrypted laptop computers that were taken last month from its headquarters in Newark.
Horizon informed Newark police Nov. 4 after discovering that the computers, which had been cable-locked to employee workstations, were missing. An investigation by outside computer forensic experts showed that the laptops may have contained files that included member information such as names, addresses, identification numbers, dates of birth, Social Security numbers and clinical information. But according to a statement from Horizon officials, all of the information may not be accessible because of the configuration of the computers.
