SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Hackers downloaded roughly 24,000 Medicaid claims containing Social Security numbers and other personal information from the Utah Health Department over the weekend, sending officials scrambling to determine which clients were affected.
The information was contained on a new server at the agency, Utah Department of Technology Services spokeswoman Stephanie Weiss said Wednesday. Technicians had installed all the security tools — such as a firewall and password — but one of them was done improperly, she said.
Based on the hackers' IP address, or computer identity, the attack likely came from eastern Europe and began Friday evening, Weiss said. Downloading of claims began Sunday, and the server was taken offline Monday after the state's security software caught the attack.
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