Personal information on the 181,604 individuals was removed from one of the Department of Health’s servers. Of those individuals, 25,096 individuals appear to have had their Social Security numbers compromised.
Initially, the Department of Health thought hackers had removed 24,000 Medicaid claims. However, the investigation has revealed that 24,000 files were removed. One single file may contain claims information for hundreds of individuals.
Affected individuals have been notified of the breach. Priority has been placed on those individuals whose Society Security numbers were breached.
Utah’s Department of Technology Services identified the cause of the breach as a breakdown in the server system. The Department is taking steps to improve security controls.
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