CMS portal breach exposes 75,000 individuals’ records
An online portal run by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services experienced a breach last week, giving hackers access to 75,000 people’s files, the agency announced on Friday. The breached portal is one used by health insurance agents and brokers assisting people with direct enrollment in the government’s Federally Facilitated Exchanges (FFE). CMS did not say what kind of information the exposed records contain or whether they belong to agents and brokers or insurance-seekers. “While this is a small fraction of consumer records present on the FFE, any breach of our system is unacceptable,” the agency said. CMS said it began investigating “anomalous system activity” on Saturday, Oct. 13 and declared a breach the following Tuesday. The agency did not say why it waited until Friday to publicly disclose the breach. CMS, an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, did not respond to a request for […]
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