Utah insurance exchange hacked

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http://www.clinical-innovation.com/index.php?option=com_articles&view=article&id=35162

By Beth Walsh
Clinical-Innovation.com
September 16, 2012

The Utah Health Exchange, a state insurance exchange whose development 
started several years before the healthcare reform law mandated 
exchanges, was recently hacked, with words garbled, headlines blurred 
and some pages inaccessible.

The Salt Lake Tribune reported on the hacking and said the site was down 
for about 10 days. Protected health information is on a separate secure 
site and was not affected.

The state's Department of Technology services maintains the breached 
site and also was responsible for the comprehensive hacking of Medicaid 
data in March. Protected health information was compromised for 780,000 
individuals, including up to 280,000 Social Security numbers.

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