"Ohio Medicaid Provider Suffers Data Breach"

On Monday, the Ohio Department of Medicaid warned that an unknown party had accessed data in the care of a company called Maximus for two days in May without authorization. The incident occurred from May 17th to May 19th. The department hired Maximus to carry out data management. The information exposed in the incident included names, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers belonging to the state's Medicaid providers. Data concerning Medicaid patients or beneficiaries were not affected by the security incident. The hacker accessed the information via an application. Once the intrusion had been detected, Maximus took the breached app offline and contacted law enforcement.

Infosecurity reports: "Ohio Medicaid Provider Suffers Data Breach"