{"id":4771,"date":"2014-09-15T16:09:39","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T16:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/military-health-insurance-has-knowledge-based-authentication-information-data-breach\/"},"modified":"2014-09-15T16:09:39","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T16:09:39","slug":"military-health-insurance-has-knowledge-based-authentication-information-data-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/insights\/military-health-insurance-has-knowledge-based-authentication-information-data-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Health Insurance Has Knowledge-Based Authentication Information Data Breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TRICARE, the health insurance company that provides medical<br \/>\ncoverage to military personnel, military retirees, and their dependents,<br \/>\nreported a data breach. The Science Applications International says the data<br \/>\nbreach involved personally identifiable and protected health information<br \/>\n(PII\/PHI) impacts an estimated 4.9 million military clinic and hospital<br \/>\npatients.<\/p>\n<p>The breach involved backup tapes from an electronic<br \/>\nhealthcare record used in the military health system to capture patient data<br \/>\nfrom 1992 through Sept. 7, 2011 from patients who received care in the San<br \/>\nAntonio area military treatment facilities. This includes persons who had<br \/>\nprescriptions filled, and patients whose laboratory tests were processed in<br \/>\nthese facilities even if they received treatment elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>It is reported the backup tapes may have included the<br \/>\nfollowing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electronicverificationsystems.com\/solutions\/\">knowledge-based<br \/>\nauthentication<\/a> information:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Social<br \/>\n    Security Numbers<\/li>\n<li>Addresses<\/li>\n<li>Phone<br \/>\n    Numbers<\/li>\n<li>Personal<br \/>\n    Health data (e.g.: clinical notes, lab tests, prescriptions)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Officials say there is no financial data on the backup<br \/>\ntapes.<\/p>\n<p>TRICARE officials say, the risk of harm to patients is<br \/>\njudged to be low because the knowledge it would take to access the data<br \/>\nrequires specific hardware and software, and knowledge of the system and data<br \/>\nstructure. But even though the officials say the risk is low, we still caution<br \/>\npossible victims of this data breach to be extremely careful with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transunion.com\/\">identity verification<\/a> because this<br \/>\ninformation is enough for you to fall victim to identity theft.<\/p>\n<p>We encourage you to reach out to the credit reporting<br \/>\nagencies, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.experian.com\/blogs\/ask-experian\/category\/fraud-and-identity-theft\/\n\">Experian<\/a>,<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.transunion.com\/\">TransUnion<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.equifax.com\/home\/en_us\">Equifax<\/a> to monitor your credit<br \/>\nreport and make sure there is no fraudulent claims on there.<\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRICARE, the health insurance company that provides medical<br \/>\ncoverage to military personnel, military retirees, and their dependents,<br \/>\nreported a data breach. The Science Applications International says the data<br \/>\nbreach involved personally identifiable and protected health information<br \/>\n(PII\/PHI) impacts an estimated 4.9 million military clinic and hospital<br \/>\npatients.<!--StartFragment--><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}