IBM MOVEit Breach Affects Millions of Americans' Healthcare Data
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The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF), responsible for administering Colorado’s Medicaid program, confirmed that it had fallen victim to the MOVEit mass hacks, exposing the data of more than 4 million patients.
In a data breach notification to those affected, Colorado’s HCPF said that the data was compromised because IBM, one of the state’s vendors, “uses the MOVEit application to move HCPF data files in the normal course of business.”
The letter states that while no HCPF or Colorado state government systems were affected by this issue, “certain HCPF files on the MOVEit application used by IBM were accessed by the unauthorized actor.”
These files include patients’ full names, dates of birth, home addresses, Social Security numbers, Medicaid and Medicare ID numbers, income informat…
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