Hack Notice

Hack Notice: Highmark Inc.

Highmark Inc.

Description
Health profile and care summaries and corresponding covering letters were incorrectly mailed to senior members of the covered entity (CE), Highmark Health, and their physicians. The protected health information involved in the hack included the names, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, unique medical identifiers (UMI), gender, medications, and health information of 2,589 individuals. The ce provided cut notification to HHS, the media, and affected individuals. following the hack, the ce issued a new UMI to each member impacted by the incident. The ce determined that a process failure by an employee was the root cause for the incorrect mailing and subsequently terminated the employee. as a resultant of OCR's investigation, the ce instituted new quality refresh procedures for mailings and retrained employees on its concealment practices and departmental policies, processes and procedures. OCR obtained details of the CE's revised policies on its health profiles to assure they include only the minimum necessary information. Location of hacked information: Paper/Films concern associate present: Yes

About HackNotice and Highmark Inc.

HackNotice is a service that notices trends and patterns in publically available data so as to identify possible data breaches, leaks, hacks, and other data incidents on behalf of our clients. HackNotice monitors data streams related to breaches, leaks, and hacks and Highmark Inc. was reported by one of those streams. HackNotice may also have the breach date, hack date, the hacker responsible, the hacked industry, the hacked location, and any other parts of the hack, breach, or leak that HackNotice can report on for the consumers of our product.

If you are a user of Highmark Inc. their products, services, websites, or applications and you were a client of HackNotice, monitoring for Highmark Inc. you may have been alerted to this report about Highmark Inc. . HackNotice is a service that provides data, information, and monitoring that helps our clients recover from and remediate data breaches, hacks, and leaks of their personal information. HackNotice provides a service that helps our clients know what to do about a hack, breach, or leak of their information.

If Highmark Inc. had a breach of consumer data or a data leak, then there may be additional actions that our clients should have to protect their digital identity. data breaches, hacks, and leaks often guide to and cause indistinguishability theft, account take overs, ransomware, spyware, extortion, and malware. account takeovers are often caused by credential reuse, parole reuse, easily guessed passwords, and are facilitated by the sharing of billions of credentials and other customer information through data leaks, as the direct resultant of data breaches and hacks.

HackNotice monitors trends in publically available data that indicates tens of thousands of data breaches each year, along with billions of records from data leaks each year. On behalf of our clients, HackNotice works to monitor for hacks that lede to lower node security and digital identities that have been exposed and should be considered vulnerable to attack. HackNotice works with clients to discover the extent that digital identities have been exposed and provides remediation suggestions for how to handle each typecast of exposure.

HackNotice monitors the hacker community, which is a network of individuals that apportion data breaches, hacks, leaks, malware, spyware, ransomware, and many other tools that are often used for financial fraud, account take overs, and further breaches and hacks. HackNotice monitors the hacker community specifically for breaches, hacks, and data leaks that hurt consumers. HackNotice applies industry specific knowledge and advanced surety practices to monitor for trends that indicate breaches, hacks, and exposed digital identities.

HackNotice also enables clients to apportion cut notices with their friend, family, and collogues to help increase awareness around alleged hacks, breaches, or data leaks. HackNotice works to provide clients with sharable reports to assist increase the security of our clients personal network. The security of the people that our clients interact with directly impacts the rase of surety of our clients. Increased exposure to accounts that get been taken over by hackers leads to further account have overs through phishing, malware, and other attach techniques.

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