This week’s Rip involves yet another healthcare player. We are not actually targeting medical ID theft cases lately–they just seem to be falling from the sky even more frequently than usual.

The Gainesville Sun reports (thanks to kirniki at DataLoss DB for the tip) that 208,000 current and former subscribers of AvMed Health Plans are at risk due to the theft of a pair of laptop computers. The laptops contained names, addresses, phone numbers, Social Security Numbers, and protected health information of the subscribers and their dependents.

That’s nearly a quarter of a million people at risk of even more acute identity theft, including medical identity theft, and some of the victims may not even have been customers of AvMed (neither currently nor formerly).

AvMed is providing credit monitoring for the victims–for two years, not just one. It’s nice to see that.

Credit monitoring service providers continue to flourish as the breaches continue.