Kaiser Permanente, one of the largest not-for-profit providers of health care and coverage in the United States, is dealing with the fallout from a significant data breach that has affected more than 13 million individuals. The company revealed details of the incident in a public notification posted on April 25th.
According to a filing submitted to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on April 12th, Kaiser Permanente suffered a data breach in mid-April that exposed the personal information of approximately 13.4 million members of its health plan.