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CVS employee stole drug benefits card database; Molina Healthcare consumers warned about ID theft

It’s a personal health information nightmare you probably think about every time you hand your health insurance card or prescription card to anyone. A CVS employee stole drug benefits information from consumers enrolled in California-based Molina Healthcare’s overt-the-counter benefits program with the idea of stealing OTC drugs, Molina has told consumers. In a letter [Keep reading]

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Historic: Fed hack puts 25 million at risk, including some outside government; fingerprints also stolen

Cybercriminals have stolen a staggering amount of information from government computers, a federal agency revealed Thursday. The total number of victims and the type of information gathered, taken together, make the hack historic. While researching an attack that saw the compromise of 4.5 million federal workers’ data, the Office of Personal [Keep reading]