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Utah Dept. of Health hacked, over 500,000 700,000 affected and the number’s growing?

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Dissent

Marjorie Cortez provides an update on a breach that started out bad enough last week, and just got a lot worse:

 Some 280,000 people had their Social Security numbers listed in state health data stolen from a computer server last week, state officials announced Monday, calling the data breach the largest in state history.

Another 500,000 victims had less sensitive personal information stolen, state health department and technology services officials said during a press conference at the State Office Building. “Less sensitive” information was described as names, dates of birth and addresses. Officials said there may be some overlap between the groups, and information is still being reviewed.

The victims are likely to be people who have visited a health care provider in the past four months. Many are children who are enrolled in Children’s Health Insurance Program or Medicaid, although adults are also victims, officials said.

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