Posted on 06/04/2015 12:23:06 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
As looted prescription drugs flood Baltimore streets, fueling a surge in violence, pharmacy chain Rite Aid warned customers Wednesday that their personal medical information could be on the streets, too..
Store officials said the labels on prescriptions stolen during the late April riots included patient names, addresses and the names of medication, but not other sensitive data such as Social Security numbers or credit card numbers.
The alert nonetheless raised concern among privacy advocates who said the information could be used for fraud. Rite Aid has hired a risk management firm to help protect customers from identity theft.
The risk also extends to customers at looted pharmacies across the city. The Drug Enforcement Administration is reviewing surveillance footage from 27 pharmacies to possibly file charges against looters, and a spokesman said the agency would help monitor for any reports of medical identity fraud.
Depending on what information pharmacies include on prescription labels, criminals could improperly refill the prescriptions, bill medical care to the prescription holder's insurance or combine the information with other stolen data to commit larger acts of fraud, experts said. Medical data is gaining in value on black markets, prompting hackers to increasingly target health care organizations, such as CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, the local insurer that last month revealed a data breach affecting more than 1 million customers....
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Drug Addicts Lives Matter!
“included patient names, addresses and the names of medication, but not other sensitive data”
So now the “youths” know where to get “refills”.
Gee the anarchist communist socialist fascist revolutionaries behind the riots got something for their efforts. Wow, maybe it was all a bait and switch...
My ‘scripts were all in cursive So I am safe.
It’s nice to hear that Rite Aid refers to its customers as “units”.
Outstanding!
Rite Aid should refuse to rebuild. Let the dindus stew in their own retardedness.
This is weird... A witness said the only things left after the looting were suntan lotions and Father’s Day cards.....
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The base is not the problem, it's Express Scripts. They mail your meds in a plastic bag and that can amount to $3K or more every 3 months. Then don't require them to be signed for. They sit in your mail box for hours and meds are temperamental to temps and humidity. I don't know what they do when a drug requires it to be refrigerated, as we don't require any of those. But the big issue is the NO PHOTO ID SIGN FOR. Fincher says it will take a LAW CHANGE to fix the issue.
Just shoving them into a mail box makes them fair game for neighborhood kids and thieves.
GIVE ME A BREAK, all DOD has to do is order EXPRESS SCRIPS to require a PHOTO ID signature. That does not require a law change. It did not take a law change for them to MANDATE the use of Express Scripts.
I thought it was CVS that was looted. Maybe they looted both chains.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
So, they can engage in all that complex fraud, but they cannot work eight hours a day for a legitimate employer?????
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