😱 Almost a Million More Affected by Medicare Data Breach (AARP Article)
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Nearly 1 Million More Medicare Beneficiaries May Be Affected in Year-Old Data Breach.
How to protect yourself if Medicare says your personal information has been exposed.
By Kimberly Lankford, AARP. Published September 09, 2024.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is notifying almost a million beneficiaries whose personal information may have been compromised in a contractor’s data breach last year.
The contractor, Madison-based Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corp., processes Medicare claims for CMS in six states: Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri and Nebraska. But beneficiaries elsewhere could be affected if they used providers in those states. The notification to 946,801 Medicare beneficiaries comes more than a year after a security vulnerability was discovered in file-transfer software called MOVit.