Healthcare Data of 840,000 at Risk After Laptop Theft   Thieves
stole two laptops that may contain the unprotected personal data
of around 840,000 customers from Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield
after breaking into the company's Newark, N.J. headquarters on
Nov. 1. One month later, the company began sending letters to
its subscribers notifying them of the breach.  Horizon issued a
statement on Dec. 6 saying the stolen laptops were password
protected, but the internal data was not encrypted.  Due to the
way the stolen laptops were configured, we are not certain that
all of the member information contained on the laptops is
accessible. We have no reason to believe that the laptops were
stolen for the information they contained or that the
information has been accessed or used in any way.  The two
stolen laptops, which reportedly were MacBook Pros, were cable-
locked to the employees' workstations, but the thieves somehow
broke the locks.  The company believes the laptops could have
contained the personal informati