Data leakage occurred on some of the company’s sites because the Google Analytics analytical platform was inappropriate. As a result of this configuration, the name of the insurance plan, the group and the number of the group, the city, the mail index, the size of the family, the identification of the participants’ accounting records and various types of personal information about medical services.
Google can use these data for targeted advertising campaigns for individual customers. Blue Shield reported a violation in February 2025 and confirmed that the US Ministry of Health and Social Services has announced safe medical data.
However, the company did not provide services to be protected against the theft of personal data, and it is not known whether individual notifications will be sent to the future participants in the future.
Bipping Computer Portal, which writes about cyber security, said that it was the second major -scale event by Blue Shield of California in less than a year. In 2024, approximately one million customers of one of the medical plans were stolen using a Blacksuit Gaspist hacking the supplier of the software decisions of the organization.
Source: Ferra

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