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DC Medicaid Agency Notifies 400,000 Beneficiaries of Data Exposure

Original: DC Medicaid Agency Notifies 400,000 Beneficiaries About Data Exposure

The District of Columbia Medicaid Agency has begun notifying roughly 400,000 beneficiaries that their personal information may have been exposed in a data incident. The notification campaign, reported by HIPAA Journal, affects a large share of DC's Medicaid enrollment. Details on what data was exposed and how the incident occurred have not yet been fully disclosed.

Why now: A data breach affecting hundreds of thousands of vulnerable Medicaid beneficiaries naturally draws concern over identity theft and government data security.

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