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Data of 8,830 Tufts plan members stolen

The names and Social Security numbers of 8,830 former and current Tufts Health Plan members has been stolen, Tufts said yesterday.

The health plan said federal officials discovered the theft during an investigation. Tufts did not say how the information was stolen except that it was not through an electronic breach, IT vulnerability or hacking.

The people affected, all current or former members of the Tufts Medicare Preferred plan, will be notified, Tufts said.

"As soon as we learned of this situation we took immediate action, conducting our own investigations while working very closely and in full cooperation with federal investigators," the company said in a statement.

GM makes profit amid recall crisis

General Motors eked out a better-than-expected first-quarter profit in the face of a recall crisis that has so far cost $1.3 billion and been linked with 32 crashes and 13 deaths.

But an initially strong market reaction cooled after the company indicated it may reduce its profit forecasts for the rest of the year. GM shares slipped 22 cents to $34.17. The automaker reported net income of $125 million, down 86 percent from a year earlier, avoiding what could have been its first loss in nearly five years and marking the company's 17th straight profitable quarter.

Fishery council to fund by catch study

The New England Fishery Management Council, which manages fishery resources off the coasts of the five coastal New England states, will spend $800,000 to research new methods to prevent the bycatch — or unintentional catching — of groundfish such as cod and flounder.

The research program will seek to find new ways to increase the catch of haddock without affecting cod, yellowtail flounder and windowpane flounder.

FCC pushes back on 'fast lanes'

The Federal Communications Commission yesterday sought to tame an outcry over its plan to allow "fast lanes" for some content on the Internet, insisting that the agency will monitor and punish broadband providers that treat Web traffic "unreasonably."

Consumer advocates assailed the proposal from FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, saying it would let certain content providers pay for access to fast lanes and discourage consumers from going to competitors' sites where videos or other content may load more slowly by comparison.

THE SHUFFLE

Lori Espino has been named president of the Waltham-based Greater New England Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Espino first joined the society in 2002 as director of information technology. Prior to that, Espino was the director of information services for ServiSense.com.

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