Bloomington based HealthPartners is notifying health plan members about a privacy breach . The company said the data breach happened between 2008 and 2010 when an employee took home electronic health plan information and showed the information to a family member . The employee was seeking help to prepare company reports . The files were also improperly copied to multiple devices in order for the employee to work from home . Affected policy holders were identified and sent letters telling them about the incident , according to a notice on the company website . News reports indicate the letters are going to about 38,000 people . The files primarily included name , birth date and health plan number , HealthPartners officials said . One file contained one member 's social security number . The company said it does not believe the information was shared with anyone outside of the employee 's family . HealthPartners is offering one year of free identity protection to all members who were affected by the data breach . ;