Blue Shield exposed 4.7M patients’ health data to Google

Healthcare institutions and insurers arguably collect the most sensitive information about you, including IDs, contact details, addresses and medical records. But they often don’t put in the same level of effort to protect that data. 

That’s clear from the growing number of healthcare data breaches we’ve seen recently. In most of those cases, a bad actor was involved. 

But in the latest news, health insurance giant Blue Shield of California confirmed that it had been sharing private...