TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corporation, a military healthcare contractor in Arizona, recently reported the theft of computer equipment and files.
Besides patient SSNs, the stolen data may include medical procedures, diagnostic codes for medical services, and locations and dates of services. The TRICARE Central Region (Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming and part of western Texas) is affected.
Officials recommend you take the following actions if you think your personal information is being misused:
- Contact the three fraud departments listed below and
- ask them to close or suspend accounts believed affected;
- request a "fraud alert" notice be placed in your files;
- request you be called before creditors open new accounts.
- File a police report in community where the identity theft took place.
The credit bureau fraud departments below can be contacted weekdays from 0830 to 1630:
TransUnion
Fraud Victim Assistance Department
P.O. Box 6790
Fullerton, CA 92834
800-680-7289
Equifax Credit Information Services
Consumer Fraud Division
P.O. Box 105069
Atlanta, GA 30348
800-525-6285
Experian
Experian's National Consumer Assistance
P.O. Box 1017
Allen, TX 75013
888-397-3741
For suspected theft or misuse of your SSN, call the SSN Fraud Hot Line at 800-269-0271 or visit the Social Security Administration online. You may also file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission by calling 877-438-4338 or by writing to:
Identify Theft Clearinghouse
Federal Trade Commission
600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20580
(From an ArmyLINK news story.)