Clover Health Investments Discloses Data Breach
Healthcare technology company Clover Health Investments has disclosed a data breach impacting customers’ personal and health information.
Discovered on July 4, the incident was the result of a social engineering attack that compromised three non-managerial health plan employee accounts.
Clover Health Investments says it activated its response plan immediately after discovering the attack, and engaged third-party cybersecurity experts to contain and investigate the intrusion.
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The compromised accounts “were assigned to employees who had member visit-scheduling and broker-facing sales functions,” the company says in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
“The employee accounts had access to certain personally identifiable information and protected health information, but had no access to corporate financial or claims systems,” it said.
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Clover Health Investments believes that it contained the incident and...
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