[BreachExchange] California health plan email hack exposed info of nearly 36, 000 members

[Destry Winant]

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/cybersecurity/california-health-plan-email-hack-exposed-info-of-nearly-36-000-members.html

The Central California Alliance for Health, a nonprofit Medicaid
health plan, notified 35,883 members of an employee email hacking
incident that exposed their information.

On May 7, an unknown third party inappropriately accessed three
Alliance employees' email accounts to obtain information of several
individuals, according to Merced Sun-Star. The Alliance reported the
security breach to HHS on July 2, saying it affected 35,883 people.

After investigating, the health plan, which has more than 330,000
members in Monterey, Merced and Santa Cruz counties, determined that
"limited" member health information may have been accessed and that
information would not have included financial information or Social
Security numbers, according to the publication.

Alliance notified all members affected by the breach, and email
accounts of those employees were shut down. All employees were
required to change their system password information and complete a
training course on email phishing attacks.