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Over the last several months, a minority of states amended data breach notification statutes to impose notice requirements on state entities, broaden existing definitions, increase reporting content requirements, regulate the insurance and tax industries, and more.
[author: Jane Anderson] ◆ The Florida Healthy Kids Corporation (FHKC), a Medicaid managed care plan, said one of its vendors, Jelly Bean Communications Design, experienced a security incident spanning seven years that involved “several thousand” Medicaid applicants. Jelly Bean Communications was responsible for hosting the Florida Healthy Kids website during the hacking incident, the managed care company said. “FHKC was notified on December 9, 2020, that several thousand applicant addresses had been inappropriately accessed and tampered with,” said a statement from the managed care...