Fierce Healthcare April 25, 2024
Kaiser Permanente has begun notifying millions of its health plan members that the company was hit with a data breach in mid-April, according to a filing with the feds.
The Kaiser Foundation Health Plan said about 13.4 million people were affected and submitted the required documentation to the Department of Health and Human Services on April 12. That notice was posted publicly on Thursday.
Kaiser Permenante told Reuters it has not identified any misuse of those data.
According to a statement to TechCrunch, the data breach stems from tracking technology that shared patient information with advertisers such as Microsoft and Google. The healthcare giant told the publication that after an investigation it found “certain online technologies, previously installed on its...
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