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Medicaid Hack Update: 500,000 Records and 280,000 SSNs Stolen

Posted by timothy on from the needs-more-government-regulation dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Utah's Medicaid hack estimate has grown a second time. This time we have gone from over 180,000 Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Plan (CHIP) recipients having their personal information stolen to a grand total of 780,000. More specifically, the state now says approximately 500,000 victims had sensitive personal information stolen and 280,000 victims had their Social Security numbers (SSNs) compromised."

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  1. Re:Simple solution: by Nidi62 · · Score: 1, Funny

    do it like they do in Luxembourg: arrest anybody who talks about the breach. After a while there will be nobody left that knows about it. Case closed!

    Yeah, but that's Luxembourg. Arrest like 5 people and you've arrested almost a quarter of the population. A lot harder to do that in the US.

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