Marianne Kolbasuk McGee reports:
The number of people affected by a March 2024 hack on a healthcare revenue cycle management and billing services provider has soared in recent weeks to more than 1.82 million, as the company continues to file updated breach reports to state and federal regulators.
ALN Medical Management, which court documents indicate is based in Nebraska and was acquired in 2023 by Maryland-based Health Prime International, filed several updated breach reports in recent days to state regulators, including the attorneys general of Texas and California, as well as to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights.
Read more at BankInfoSecurity.
Heads up, folks!
Yesterday, both of DataBreaches’ children received letters addressed to them from ALN Medical Management. Neither child has lived at this address in years, and had DataBreaches not recognized the name ALN Medical Management from work reporting on breaches, the letters might have wound up in the trash.
The fact that neither child has lived at this address in about a decade suggests that the breach may have involved stored data going back a number of years.
Be aware that any breach notification letters mailed by ALN Medical Management will arrive in an envelope with ALN Medical Management as the return address/sender. The letter contains an offer of complimentary credit monitoring services through IDX, so if you do not already have that type of service in place, you may wish to take them up their offer. That said, and as this site has recommended on numerous occasions: it’s even more helpful to simply freeze your credit report so that any attempts to access your credit report to get approval to open a new account will be blocked unless you authorize the credit reporting agency to temporarily unfreeze your report.
In recent months, I responded to the advice to freeze all 3 credit reports. Experian and Transunion were frozen from a previous request. Equifax, however, wanted to be different, and would not honor my request to freeze by phone. I will try again today.