Health IT Security April 26, 2024
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan is notifying millions of individuals that their data may have been disclosed to third parties due to the company’s use of tracking tech.
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan filed a data breach report with the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR), confirming a 13.4-million record breach. The filing signifies the largest breach reported to OCR in 2024 so far.
Kaiser told TechCrunch that the breach stemmed from its use of certain technologies installed on its websites and applications, which may have transmitted data to third-party vendors, such as Google, Microsoft, and X.
The impacted data includes member names, IP addresses, and information that revealed how members interacted with Kaiser’s sites.
Kaiser has since removed these tools from...
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