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ARTICLE · 11 AUGUST 2023

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Maximus, a U.S. government contracting major player, confirmed on July 26 that hackers accessed the protected health data of up to 11 million individuals.

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Maximus, a U.S. government contracting major player, confirmed on July 26 that hackers accessed the protected health data of up to 11 million individuals. The data was compromised when Maximus used MOVEit Transfer, an enterprise file transfer tool developed by Progress Software. MOVEit is implemented by thousands of governments, financial institutions, and other private and public companies across the globe. Maximus uses MOVEit "for internal and external file sharing purposes, including to share data with government customers pertaining to individuals who participate in various government programs."

Maximus contracts with local, state, and federal governments by managing programs such as Medicaid, Medicare, healthcare reform, student loan services, and welfare-to-work. Because of the complex involvement with these government programs, the data hackers encountered personal information such as "social security numbers, protected health information and/or other

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