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Subject: [ISN] State confirms health data security breach
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date: 2013-11-25 7:15:28
Message-ID: alpine.DEB.2.02.1311250715180.11385 () infosecnews ! org
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http://www.timesargus.com/article/20131123/NEWS03/709239846
November 23,2013
MONTPELIER -- Officials overseeing the Vermont Health Connect website
confirmed Friday there was a security breach on the system last month in
which one user got improper access to another user's Social Security
number and other data.
A report from state to federal officials overseeing the health insurance
exchanges set up under the Affordable Care Act said a consumer reported
the incident with the Vermont Health Connect website Oct. 17.
The consumer, whom officials would not identify, reported that he received
in the mail -- from an unnamed sender - a copy of his own application for
insurance under the state exchange.
"On the back of the envelope was hand-written ‘VERMONT HEALTH CONNECT IS
NOT A SECURE WEBSITE!' This was also (written) on the back of the last
page of the printed out application," said the incident report.
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