{"id":1072,"date":"2018-10-24T21:16:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T21:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/2018\/10\/24\/texas-state-agency-2nd-largest-health-care-data-breach-in-us-for-2018-what-you-need-to-know\/"},"modified":"2018-10-24T21:16:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T21:16:00","slug":"texas-state-agency-2nd-largest-health-care-data-breach-in-us-for-2018-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/texas-state-agency-2nd-largest-health-care-data-breach-in-us-for-2018-what-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas State Agency. 2nd Largest Health Care Data Breach in US for 2018. What you need to know:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What agency is involved?<\/strong> Employee Retirement System of Texas<\/p>\n<p><strong>What was the data breach?<\/strong> Personal health information data for other individuals was accessible when a person was logged into the agency portal<\/p>\n<p><strong>When did ERS receive notification?<\/strong> August 17 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>How many people were impacted?<\/strong>\u00a0nearly 1.25 million individuals<\/p>\n<p><strong>When did ERS report the incident?<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0reported to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as a &#8220;unauthorized access\/disclosure&#8221; health data\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthcareinfosecurity.com\/breach-response-c-324\" style=\"color:rgb(70,147,217);text-decoration:none;font-family:'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:18px;\">breach<\/a>\u00a0on October 15th<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govinfosecurity.com\/texas-retirement-agency-portal-breach-affects-125-million-a-11638\">Gov Info Security |\u00a0Texas Retirement Agency Portal Breach Affects 1.25 Million<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/healthitsecurity.com\/news\/ers-online-coding-error-exposes-1.25m-users-to-health-data-breach\">Health IT Security |\u00a0ERS Online Coding Error Exposes 1.25M Users to Health Data Breach<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What agency is involved?<\/strong> Employee Retirement System of Texas<\/p>\n<p><strong>What was the data breach?<\/strong> Personal health information data for other individuals was accessible when a person was logged into the agency portal<\/p>\n<p><strong>When did ERS receive notification?<\/strong> August 17 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>How many people were impacted?<\/strong>\u00a0nearly 1.25 million individuals<\/p>\n<p><strong>When did ERS report the incident?<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0reported to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as a &#8220;unauthorized access\/disclosure&#8221; health data\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthcareinfosecurity.com\/breach-response-c-324\" style=\"color:rgb(70,147,217);text-decoration:none;font-family:'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:18px;\">breach<\/a>\u00a0on October 15th<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govinfosecurity.com\/texas-retirement-agency-portal-breach-affects-125-million-a-11638\">Gov\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,5,2,16,13,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-legislative-issue","category-data-encryption","category-data-privacy","category-government-data-breach","category-health-care-data","category-insurance","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}