Utah Health Department Data Breach Victims to Receive Another Year of Credit Monitoring

Utah lawmakers have agreed to spend $1 million to extend credit monitoring for a second year to victims of a Utah Department of Health data breach that occurred last March, according to a Salt Lake Tribune report.

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Nearly 182,000 individuals were affected when their personal information was removed from one of the Department of Health’s servers.

The Utah Department of Health has also been given $300,000 by the state to hire new IT staff to develop and enforce new data security protocols, according to the report.

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