Health care records for millions of Americans is missing according to a report by ABC News. The missing data also includes Social Security numbers for about two million of Health Net Inc.’s past and current customers. The company announced this week that it’s missing several hard drives from its data center which is located in the Sacramento area.

The California Department of Managed Health Care issued a news release saying that nine server drives are unaccounted for and that it’s investigating the missing information. The department believes about 1.9 million people could be impacted. Of those, more than 622,000 have insurance products regulated by the state Department of Managed Health Care, more than 223,000 are currently enrolled in California Department of Insurance products and another portion are Medicare clients.  “Obviously something went wrong, but we don’t know,” department spokeswoman Denise Schmidt said according to ABC News.

Health Net has about six million customers and this is not their first experience with data loss, according to reports. Back in January the company paid about $55,000 in a settlement over the loss of similar information of 1.5 million people. The incident happened in Vermont and customers were not told about the potential security breech for six months. ABC says IBM handles the company’s information technology.

With so many financial obligations that must be met by the average person, it is not surprising that many fail to meet one or more of these obligations.  If you fail to pay your mortgage payment, there can be serious consequences not the least of which is potentially losing your house.  What are some reasons?