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[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 company. “These addresses are collected as part of the online Florida KidCare application.” There is no evidence that any applicant’s personal information was removed from the system, according to FHKC. After an independent investigation, “cybersecurity experts identified significant vulnerabilities in the hosted website platform and the databases that support the online Florida KidCare application,” the company said. “FHKC learned that these vulnerabilities spanned a seven-year period from November 2013 until December 2020. FHKC temporarily shut down the website and databases in December 2020.” The types of information that may have been exposed included full names, dates of birth, email addresses, phone numbers, addresses, Social Security numbers, financial information and secondary insurance information.
Get Permission The National Counterintelligence and Security Center is calling attention to China s ongoing efforts to collect DNA data sets and other sensitive health data of Americans through hacking and other methods. The collection of PII, personal health information and large genomic data sets gives China vast opportunities to precisely target individuals in foreign governments, private industries or other sectors for surveillance, manipulation or extortion, the NCSC warns. The NCSC alert comes on the heels of a 60 Minutes CBS television segment Sunday featuring William Evanina, the former director of the NCSC, who estimated that 80% of American adults have had their personally identifiable information “stolen” by China.
The Illinois company behind a popular fertility app is being sued for allegedly sharing user data with third-party companies without first securing users consent. Easy Healthcare Corp, based in Burr Ridge, is the developer of ovulation tracking app Premom, which helps users to identify the days on which they are most likely to conceive. A lawsuit filed against the company alleges that a variety of sensitive data belonging to app users was shared non-consensually with at least three different firms located in the People s Republic of China (PRC). Information allegedly shared includes sensitive healthcare information, device activity data, geolocation data, user and advertiser IDs, and device hardware identifiers.