750K More Victims in Utah Health Department Breach
An additional 750,000 people had personal information from the Utah Department of Health downloaded by hackers last week, which puts the total victim count at nearly 900,000 people, according to a report from The Associated Press.
Yesterday, the number was closer to 182,000 victims, but the original estimate was 24,000. The hackers, working from a computer tracked to Eastern Europe, began stealing files from a single unprotected server containing information on Medicaid recipients on March 30. And although the state has multiple layers of security on each of their nearly 500 servers, a technician recently installed this one with a password that wasn't as secure as needed, says AP.