US Cabinet for Health and Family Services Nov 2012 Social Engineering (Q11225)
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A data breach risk event
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US Cabinet for Health and Family Services Nov 2012 Social Engineering
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A data breach risk event
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November 2012
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The Cabinet for Health and Family Services in Frankfort, Ky., is informing approximately 2,500 clients of a possible data breach that may have released information held by the Cabinets Department for Community Based Services. The Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS) is informing 1,090 Medicaid clients by letter of a computer security breach that may have resulted in the unintentional release of information held by Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Services (HP ES), the vendor that manages Medicaids information management system. In mid-November, an employee of Carewise Health, a subcontractor of HP ES, responded to a telephone computer scam, resulting in unauthorized remote access to a computer that contained a database with information on the Medicaid clients. HP ES and Carewise Health (English)
