30k Florida Medicaid recipients’ data at risk after phishing attack — 3 insights

Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration said a phishing attack potentially revealed personal data for 30,000 Medicaid recipients, engadget reports.

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Here’s what you should know:

1. An agency staffer fell victim to a phishing email Nov. 15, giving hackers access to names, addresses, Medicaid ID numbers and personal health information.

2. The agency said there’s no reason to believe the personal information had been “abused.”

3. Engadget said there are no leads on who perpetrated the attack or what they wanted the data for.

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