Medicare Patients’ Health Records Breached in MOVEit Hack (1)

More than 600,000 people in the US Medicare program may have had personal data including medical records exposed through a data breach.

The data was on systems belonging to Maximus Federal Services, a unit of Maximus Inc., that used file transfer software MOVEit, Medicare announced in a statement. A vulnerability in the MOVEit software exploited by hackers has been tied to a widening circle of data breaches at companies and public agencies.

Medicare patients may have had some of their most intimate health information exposed, including medical histories and visit notes, diagnoses, images and treatments, along with names, ...