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Over 100k Medicare Accounts Breached in Latest Hack: Was Yours One?

An older couple stare at a laptop worried about their Medicare benefits.

Be on the lookout for a letter from Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The government agency that provides medical insurance for more than 67 million Americans 65 and older is notifying Medicare beneficiaries that they may have been part of a data breach in which fake accounts were created in their names.

In a press release issued Monday, CMS said it had identified suspicious activity related to the unauthorized creation of certain beneficiary online accounts using personal information obtained from unknown external sources.

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