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Utah: Did 2005 bill contribute to the Medicaid computer breach?

Posted on May 24, 2012 by Dissent

Chris Vanocur that a 2005 bill that centralized computer systems in Utah may have contributed to the March hack that affected 800,000. The centralization reportedly saved the state money, but Chris asks at what cost?

The centralization reportedly led to lay-offs and, eventually, other key state computer personnel left as well.

ABC 4 News is being told the 2005 reorganization and streamlining has led to too many computer servers being handled by too few people.

In fact, we’re also being told the server that was hacked – the one with the Medicaid names – wasn’t even supposed to be in use, that it was really set up just to be a test server.

This, perhaps, led to insufficient monitoring and the security breach.

Read more on ABC4.

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