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[author: Jane Anderson]
◆ A Texas Medicaid subcontractor has been terminated after a data breach caused by a ransomware attack originating from Russia exposed the personal information of tens of thousands of low-income residents. A spokesperson for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission also said that the agency did not learn about the extent of the attack, which occurred last April, until it received questions about the incident from
The Dallas Morning News.
[1] According to news reports, the initial communications to the state agency from the contractor, Accenture, described a multistate incident involving health care providers and insurance billing and collections for health plans. That mirrors other notifications that Accenture’s collections subcontractor, Houston-based Benefit Recovery Specialists Inc. (BRSI), made to the federal government and the public last summer, the reports said. Notices the company posted on its website and sent to national new ....

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