Wisconsin Department of Health Services suffered a data breach incident that impacted the protected health information (PHI) of 12,358 individuals.
The exposed information included first and last name, date of birth, gender, county location, Wisconsin Medicaid member ID number, and social security number of affected members of Wisconsin Medicaid.
DHS immediately took safety precautions and notified the impacted individuals and offered them free credit monitoring services.
Source: https://healthitsecurity.com/news/michigan-medicine-notifies-33k-patients-of-phishing-attack
TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/wisconsin-department-of-health-services
"id": "wis05731122",
"linkid": "wisconsin-department-of-health-services",
"type": "Data Leak",
"date": "08/2021",
"severity": "85",
"impact": "4",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with customers data leaks"{'affected_entities': [{'customers_affected': '12,358',
'industry': 'Healthcare',
'location': 'Wisconsin',
'name': 'Wisconsin Department of Health Services',
'type': 'Government Agency'}],
'data_breach': {'number_of_records_exposed': '12,358',
'personally_identifiable_information': ['first and last name',
'date of birth',
'gender',
'county location',
'Wisconsin Medicaid '
'member ID number',
'social security '
'number'],
'sensitivity_of_data': 'High',
'type_of_data_compromised': ['PHI']},
'description': 'Wisconsin Department of Health Services suffered a data '
'breach incident that impacted the protected health '
'information (PHI) of 12,358 individuals. The exposed '
'information included first and last name, date of birth, '
'gender, county location, Wisconsin Medicaid member ID number, '
'and social security number of affected members of Wisconsin '
'Medicaid. DHS immediately took safety precautions and '
'notified the impacted individuals and offered them free '
'credit monitoring services.',
'impact': {'data_compromised': ['first and last name',
'date of birth',
'gender',
'county location',
'Wisconsin Medicaid member ID number',
'social security number']},
'response': {'communication_strategy': 'Notified impacted individuals and '
'offered free credit monitoring '
'services'},
'title': 'Data Breach at Wisconsin Department of Health Services',
'type': 'Data Breach'}