"Burglars Expose Walgreens Customer Data in a Different Kind of Breach"

In late May and early June, groups of unidentified thieves broke into multiple Walgreens stores and stole prescription information and other data on some 70,000 customers.  The thieves forced their way behind pharmacy counters, stole drug prescriptions, and took a "very limited" number of hard drives attached to stolen cash registers.  According to Walgreens, customers' health insurance and vaccination information may have been swept up in the breach, but credit card data and Social Security numbers were not affected.  The incidents are a reminder that, as healthcare organizations try to guard their networks from hackers, physical attacks can also compromise sensitive customer data. 

Cyberscoop reports: "Burglars Expose Walgreens Customer Data in a Different Kind of Breach"