On April 5, Affinity Health Plan announced what the insurer described as a "potential security breach" of customer, provider and staff data.

"Affinity was informed on March 17 that an office copier leased previously by it and since returned to the leasing company might contain personal information on its hard drive," according to DataBreaches.net. "As of the April 5 statement, the company had not yet retrieved the hard drive nor had an opportunity to examine it, but according to the company, some of the personal information on the copiers may have included Social Security numbers, dates of birth, and medical information."

"As a result of the situation, Affinity began contacting the leasing company to retrieve hard drives of other copiers it had leased in the past and is changing its practices with respect to scrubbing hard drives on leased equipment before it is returned," the article states.

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