Terminated: Texas Medicaid subcontractor dumped after data breach in ransomware attack from Russia
Most of the nearly 275,000 Americans potentially affected by the break were Texas Medicaid patients.
A Texas Medicaid subcontractor has been terminated after a data-privacy breach caused by a ransomware attack from Russia last year exposed the personal information of tens of thousands of low-income residents. Photo shows a digital forensics class demonstration at Richland College, a northeast Dallas community college.
Updated at 1:30 p.m.: to add Accenture’s comment about how a notice about the breach appeared on a website with high traffic.
AUSTIN A Texas Medicaid subcontractor has been terminated after a data-privacy breach caused by a ransomware attack from Russia last year exposed the personal information of tens of thousands of low-income residents.