Humana suffered a data breach incident after Choice Health, one of the companies it uses to help sell its products, experienced a cyberattack.
The breach exposed some customers’ first and last names, Social Security numbers, Medicare beneficiary identification numbers, dates of birth, addresses, contact information and health insurance information.
Humana sent out data breach letters to all affected parties, informing them of the incident and the ways to protect themselves from fraud.
Source: https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/humana-announces-reports-third-party-6625303/
TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/humana
"id": "hum232025922",
"linkid": "humana",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "09/2022",
"severity": "80",
"impact": "4",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with customers data leaks"
{'affected_entities': [{'industry': 'Healthcare',
'name': 'Humana',
'type': 'Health Insurance Company'}],
'data_breach': {'personally_identifiable_information': ['first and last names',
'Social Security '
'numbers',
'Medicare beneficiary '
'identification '
'numbers',
'dates of birth',
'addresses',
'contact information'],
'sensitivity_of_data': 'High',
'type_of_data_compromised': ['PII', 'Health Information']},
'description': 'Humana suffered a data breach incident after Choice Health, '
'one of the companies it uses to help sell its products, '
'experienced a cyberattack. The breach exposed some customers’ '
'first and last names, Social Security numbers, Medicare '
'beneficiary identification numbers, dates of birth, '
'addresses, contact information and health insurance '
'information. Humana sent out data breach letters to all '
'affected parties, informing them of the incident and the ways '
'to protect themselves from fraud.',
'impact': {'data_compromised': ['first and last names',
'Social Security numbers',
'Medicare beneficiary identification numbers',
'dates of birth',
'addresses',
'contact information',
'health insurance information']},
'response': {'communication_strategy': 'Humana sent out data breach letters '
'to all affected parties, informing '
'them of the incident and the ways to '
'protect themselves from fraud.'},
'title': 'Humana Data Breach Incident',
'type': 'Data Breach'}