Millions of Americans had their private medical and health information stolen after attackers hacked into systems operated by tech giant IBM and exploited a zero-day flaw in the widely used MOVEit file transfer software.
The MOVEit major hacks exposed the data of more than 4 million patients, according to the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF), which oversees Colorado’s Medicaid programme.
In a notification of a data breach sent to people impacted, Colorado’s HCPF stated that IBM, one of the state’s vendors, “uses the MOVEit application to move HCPF data files in the normal course of business.”
While the Colorado state government or HCPF systems were unaffected by this problem, the letter claims that “certain HCPF files on the MOVEit application used by IBM were accessed by the unauthorised actor.”
These files contain the full names, birth dates, residences, Social Security numbe
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