Iowa Medicaid officials say about 20,800 members had their personal and private health information compromised in a national data breach contracted to help manage the state program.
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The Iowa Department of Health and Human Services says the breach was part of an attack on a contractor's computer systems last summer. The Iowa Medicaid system itself was not hacked.