Medicaid Hacked: Over 181,000 Records and 25,000 SSNs Stolen

An anonymous reader writes "The Utah Department of Health has been hacked. 181,604 Medicaid and CHIP recipients have had their personal information stolen. 25,096 had their Social Security numbers (SSNs) compromised. The agency is cooperating with law enforcement in a criminal investigation. The hackers, who are believed to be located in Eastern Europe, breached the server in question on March 30, 2012."

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It is kind of weird

[geoffrobinson]

You have a ton of liberals claiming there is a right to privacy which guarantees a right to an abortion... but we have to have a single payer health insurer that knows practically everything about us.