Chapter 12. Cyber Insurance
In May 2014, the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS) announced one of the largest potential breaches of healthcare data reported to date. More than 1.3 million people’s records may have been exposed—more than the population of the entire state, which had only a million residents at the time. A department server had been hacked in July 2013 and wasn’t discovered until ten months later. According to the state’s notification, the server may have contained names, addresses, birth dates, Social Security numbers (SSNs), as well as “information related to health assessments, diagnoses, treatment, health condition, prescriptions, insurance, and bank account numbers.”1
1. Montana Department of Health ...
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