SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah lawmakers have agreed to spend $1 million to extend credit monitoring for victims of the huge state Medicaid data breach for another year.
Sheila Wash-McDonald, ombudsman for the Utah Department of Health, said the department also is using $300,000 to create a privacy and security office to strengthen data security procedures.
State officials announced in May 2012 that Eastern European hackers had used a weak password to break into a Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) server and steal the Social Security numbers of about 280,000 people.
