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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. So, how did they discover the leakage? by SCHecklerX · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I always wonder about these stories. They are obviously so ate up with their infrastructure that they don't know how to properly configure, maintain, and secure it. So how, then, do they detect the breach, which is usually far more difficult than protecting the stuff in the first place.