CMS Data Hack

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Be on the lookout for a letter from Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The government agency that provides medical insurance for more than 67 million Americans 65 and older is notifying Medicare beneficiaries that they may have been part of a data breach in which fake accounts were created in their names.

In a press release issued Monday, CMS said it had identified suspicious activity related to the unauthorized creation of certain beneficiary online accounts using personal information obtained from unknown external sources.

CMS reported that roughly 103,000 beneficiaries might have been affected by the recent data breach.

 
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