David Kravets, Blogger, Wired, Threat Level

Extortion Plot Threatens to Divulge Millions of Patients' Prescriptions

November 10, 2008 at 12:03 am PT

A St. Louis company managing prescription benefits of 50 million people said Thursday it called the FBI to investigate an extortion plot threatening to expose personal information, including prescriptions, of millions of its clients.

Express Scripts said it has received an anonymous letter containing the names of some 75 clients that includes dates of birth, Social Security numbers and their prescriptions. The letter threatens to expose millions of patient records if Express Scripts does not pay an undisclosed amount of money.

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