Kaiser Permanente: Data Breach May Impact 13.4 Million Customers

Data shared with third-party vendors potentially includes member names and IP addresses.
Kaiser Permanente: Data Breach May Impact 13.4 Million Customers
A man types on a computer keyboard, on Feb. 28, 2013. Kacper Pempel/Reuters
Katabella Roberts
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Health care service provider Kaiser Permanente has revealed roughly 13.4 million people in the United States may have been impacted by a data security incident that occurred earlier this month.

In a filing with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights, the Oakland, California-headquartered conglomerate said the data breach occurred on April 12 and impacted its Kaiser Permanente Foundation Health Plan members.
Katabella Roberts
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Katabella Roberts is a news writer for The Epoch Times, focusing primarily on the United States, world, and business news.